Quotes About Recovery

At Sunderland, if I had a bad game, it wasn't like it was the end of the world.

If you are out there golfing, and you hit a bad shot, anyone who knows golf will tell you that you just have to forget about it. If you don't, you'll hit another bad one and another and then another. It plays with your head. It's the same way in a fight.

No matter how badly you play, you want to come out healthy.

Obviously, when you drop a ball early in the game, it could be worse. You can go on to drop many more balls or stuff like that.

My own basketball background was ripping up my ACL in a lawyer's league.

I tore my ACL playing basketball.

I actually don't get massages very much. But Epsom salt baths are better than any massage.

I take Epsom salt baths.

I love taking Epsom salt baths.

I had a very public battle with anorexia.

Sometimes good countries are so traumatized by events that they lose their bearings and embrace bad leaders.

There was a time when I was beat down, and I lost my way.

Rita got the best of us. We took quite a beating. It's going to take a while to come back from this.

At 40, I went to bed for three days. I thought my life is over.

I get as much sleep as possible. When I get home, I have just enough energy to lay out my clothes and go to bed.

I stopped drinking alcohol, which probably was the biggest change. I used to be a very big beer drinker. Being from England, that's a very common thing.

When I played for the Steelers and I got my bell rung, I'd take smelling salts and go right back out there.

if you have been assaulted by somebody you thought you could trust, how do you restore your sense of trust in the world or in people? And how do you trust yourself?

Traumatic memories have a number of unusual qualities. They are not encoded like the ordinary memories of adults in a verbal, linear narrative that is assimilated into an ongoing life story….[R]ather, they are encoded in the form of vivid sensations and images. It

You hear that rape victims avoid sex afterwards. But it's actually just as common for some victims to become promiscuous in self-destructive ways.

traumatized people find themselves reenacting some aspect of the trauma scene in disguised form, without realizing what they are doing….There

Asked whether history had ever seen anything like the Depression, John Maynard Keynes replied: "Yes. It was called the Dark Ages, and it lasted four hundred years.

A revealing, oft-cited detail: Mississippi earmarked 20 percent of its entire state budget in 1866 for wooden limbs.)

Typing it was like cleaning a wound... I was picking all the grit and the smoke out of my mind.