Quotes About Recovery

Now that sports science is more advanced, we know that there are so many off-pitch factors that can affect how good you can become. If people are telling you to sleep a certain number of hours, eat specific foods, and drink a certain volume of fluids, then you have to be prepared to listen and learn.

The closer you get to competition the volume of training you actually do is less, so as to allow your body to rest and recover between sessions.

I have a lot of shame, and until I got sober at 42 years of age, I had never voted. I was just a hippie.

When I was 19 years old, I came down with anorexia. I had it for about a year before it became public. And it had a lot to do with my self-esteem.

I was an ego maniac with a self-esteem problem and that's what most addicts are like.

You can't be faulted for being selfish if you're going to get better because of it.

Drugs are a very selfish thing.

I stopped drinking on 24 September 1986.

I tore my Achilles' tendon in September 2005.

After the attacks on September 11th, we all learned lessons.

After a two-hour session in the gym, you can't then go out and be up for looking for trouble, you just want to eat and sleep.

When you're out for a week here and there, it sets you back, and you're out of the team.

I couldn't wait until after my third baby to get my body back and start being able to dress a little bit sexier again.

I think a lot of people feel shame when they revisit their years of addiction.

After Euro 2008, football in England was shattered for a bit, and people were losing interest in following England.

When I got hurt - everybody knows I shattered my pelvis - all I thought about was running with my kids one day and being able to have a family.

After the accident Black Sheep was pretty much at an end.

After 'Saawariya,' I retreated into a shell.

I've had two shoulder surgeries.

I've had shoulder issues.

Anorexia is an awful thing, but you get yourself into it, and only you can get yourself out of it.

Divorce is just the most awful thing in the world.

When I'm sad, I let myself be sad, but at the same time, I've been finding ways to pick myself back up.

A bad day on the course doesn't have to mean a bad night and a bad week and you get to scream at your agent.