Quotes About Recovery

When I left the penitentiary, I learned to stay away from the Philly cheesesteaks, the pizza, the junk that clogs your arteries and kills you.

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

I've been in places that have been robbed.

I do plan to return to golf one day, I just don't know when that day will be.

When you're hurting after a match, the last thing you want to do is get in a car or on a plane to get to the next city.

I had actually had an injury that happened to me personally on a flight - an overhead bag fell directly on top of my head while I was on a plane. I was out of it; I was completely out of it.

I flew on a plane the week after 9/11.

At least once a week, I try to have one day where I have nothing planned so I can get up and just go back to bed and lay around and recharge my batteries.

For 60 years man has been putting plastic into the ocean. And from that day onward we're also taking it back out again.

The first time my mom was hospitalized, she was forcibly sedated before I was admitted to see her. When I arrived, someone handed me a plastic bag containing her belongings: the ruined clothes that had been cut off her body with scissors.

I have a plate on my neck. I had my neck fused.

I have an eight-inch plate in my shoulder with eight screws.

If we get in an accident that's strong enough to break bones, it's going to break bones. What makes me a little bit higher risk is that if I break my right ankle again, I've got a bunch of screws and plates in there, and that would not be good.

I was once in a very, very bad car accident. So my drawing arm is full of pins and platinum stuff. Occasionally it hurts. But I found that after the arm was put back together I could draw better than before. I have no idea why.

Just flush it if something bad happens. That's the way I was raised to play baseball.

For so long I focused on all that I had lost - my legs, my anonymity, even my freedom in a way. I couldn't jump in the car, blast some music and just get away for a bit. I couldn't play basketball with my brothers. I couldn't even get up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom without making it some sort of production.

I play golf, and then I see working out in the evening as my way of taking care of any aches or pains that need fixing.

I've been through seasons where I've not played a lot of games, and its been difficult due to injuries and stuff like that.

I played with a herniated disk that I didn't find out was herniated until I tore my meniscus.

I have just been a bit inconsistent when I have played. That happens in football, especially when you have been out for a long period.

Injuries are a part and parcel of a player's career.

Having fresh players is important.

Sometimes players can have some ups-and-downs after they have done well and then lose a few matches in a row.

You never want an injury as you're getting ready for the playoffs.