Quotes About Recovery

I kind of went through a rough period. I could have kept going down that road and then off the cliff and into the ocean.

It had been an odd, kind of rough year for me when 'CSI' ended.

I would say the worst period of my life was between 1997 and 2000. I was lost, I was all at odds. I needed a family, I guess.

That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.

A lot of fighters are counted out after a loss, and it's really what you do afterward that offers an explanation to your career.

It's OK to take time off and say to friends that I need to get well.

I can say I have forgiven my captors. That being said, I never want to see them again. I'm not OK with they did to me.

The failure of 'OK Jaanu' hit me hard.

A doctor once told me that with crying you aren't sure what its derivation is. If someone comes at you with a knife, you don't cry: you scream, you try to run. When it's over and you're OK, that's when you cry.

It has been difficult to get back on the saddle, particularly after getting whiplash and concussion, but it's just about understanding that sometimes it's OK to say, 'I don't want to get back on my bike for week.'

What really interests me is how a woman who has had a bad experience with a man comes through it and gets a new life. I feel you have to be positive. You have to say, 'Look, okay, he's ditched you, but there's life after.'

My 'new' knee now feels like a bionic knee compared with my old one.

I feel like my old self on the ice.

I damaged my hamstring at the London Olympics and had to stop training for five months. At times, I thought my career was over.

Being injured has harmed me on and off the field in a lot of ways.

So I just sat in bed for six months - I literally didn't leave the house - and it was the first time that I'd actually experienced being depressed. I'd be sad on and off but I'd never experienced actual depression. Like, crying for no reason. It was really horrible.

Chords that were broken will vibrate once more.

It's scary when one day the city is there and the next day it's gone. To see the water actual kill people, I couldn't believe it. I never fathomed it could bury a city.

I learned that, with grief, you have to take it one day at a time and learn how to find the happiness amid the heartbreak.

That's one of the things you get when you're playing golf. You get bad backs, bad necks.

We went bankrupt one time and lost everything. When I tell that story at my Women's Leadership LIVE conferences, people are shocked. I mean, our house was auctioned off and the car repossessed in the driveway. We had to start over again.

I think that everybody, at one time or another, has been betrayed and lied to, and it's about the pain, and it's about the healing process, and it's about how do you get past that and move on.

I didn't think I could go onstage and play unless I had a beer to loosen up. Well, if it was only one beer to loosen up, I'd probably still be drinking today.

Marking success, for me, is walking onto a court and just walking off healthy, no matter if it is one minute or two minutes.