Quotes About Recovery

Like most New Yorkers I was shell-shocked immediately after 9/11 and couldn't put into words what I was feeling.

I've known guys who've got knocked out and they get back in there too soon, next thing you know they get clipped and they're out again.

I used to have nightmares about the civil war when I got to England at ages 14 to 15. It took me some years to get over that.

I like to get more than my normal 10 hours of sleep nights before a game.

I was in depression. I was in my room, dark every night, not wanting to talk to nobody, not going out with my friends, not doing anything, not having a great time. It was a lot of dark nights.

I can easily sleep from nine to 13 hours a night.

When I was in desperate trouble for maybe eight or nine years, I went to a neuropsychiatrist.

I need nine hours of sleep because of all the activity I do. It doesn't always happen, but I really try.

Nine years after I had my own accident, I find that in trying to go back to doing those things that I used to do just doesn't fit. Everything seems to just fall apart. I don't know why but I think it is because I am this new creature.

Being injured for nine months, it felt like a breeze to me mentally - nothing was really too difficult.

Don't be hard on yourself! You just had a baby. It took nine months to get there, and I believe it takes nine months to get back. For me, I really watched what I ate and exercised as much as I could with three kids.

Interceptions are gonna happen. You can't worry about that. 'I made a mistake? OK, I have to make up for it.' That's my attitude about it. If I worry about it, I've got no chance.

There's no country in the world that's more devastated from natural resources than Afghanistan.

There's no doubt about it; playing football and how tough it is on the body afterwards.

When you are debilitated, and you're very depressed, and you believe there's no hope, you cannot get a better potpourri of down.

You know, you become crazy. I had done a story for '60 Minutes' on depression previously, but I had no idea that I was now experiencing it. Finally, I collapsed and just went to bed.

I'm an athlete - my legs were everything. I had no idea what my life would be like without them.

When I was shooting for the film 'No Problem,' there was a fire on the sets and I had some burn injuries in my leg.

All she knew for sure was that the emotional turbulence of the last few months had left her with little energy to take care of herself.

Aside from the brief period after Victor's death, sleep

I've yet to meet anyone who wants to accept it—but that's pretty much what I'm supposed to do. Because in the end,and no matter how hard it is, acceptance helps people move on with the rest of their lives

The damage that you have inflicted heals over, and the scarred places left behind have unusual surface areas, roughnesses enough to become the nodes around which wisdom weaves its fibrils.

After a night of poison, your brain wakes up in the morning saying, No, I don't give a shit who introduced the sweet potato into North America. The damage that you have inflicted heals over, and the scarred places left behind have unusual surface areas, roughnesses enough to become the nodes around which wisdom weaves its fibrils.

Aside from these infrequent outbursts he possesses the gentle demeanor that sometimes trails the newly sober, that deep acceptance that comes with realizing how badly you'd fucked up your life.