Miroslav Vitous Quotes

I'm healed up and I feel great. After going through the fire, it's great to be out performing again.

When I broke my leg, I never thought I'd ever be skating again let alone be standing on a world podium. I had to relearn how to skate, relearn how to even stand on one foot again. I had to relearn all my technique.

I always said that I took a lot energy, a lot of time for me to recover and come back to the sport and join back in F1, but I would like to stay.

If my life were a song the title would be 'The Comeback Kid.'

Nurses told my mother that I was going to be OK. They thought I could walk without a limp and without a brace. And we stopped in a shoe store on the way home and bought a pair of low-top saddle Oxford shoes, which was sort of a symbol that I was going to be a normal little boy.

Ray Lewis, the greatest player ever, has been hurt a couple of times, but he has always come back strong.

When Grant Hill came back to Orlando after having all of his surgeries, I was the first person to call him and congratulate him for making it back. It seemed like nobody cared about what I was dealing with.

When you are injured you have to keep a positive mindset and keep moving forward.

I'm here. I'm not going anywhere. No matter what the injury - unless it's completely debilitating - I'm going to be the same player I've always been. I'll figure it out. I'll make some tweaks, some changes, but I'm still coming.

I am starting to look like and perform like the Lou that I used to be.

If God wants to take my left arm, that's OK, as long as I can walk and play with my kids. I'm a lot improved. I was worse than this after the accident.

Even when I was young, playing college football, and I injured my knee, I bounced right back.

To have a comeback, you have to have a setback.

You love the game, but it's hard to do the things you do when you're feeling like you're a leg down all the time, literally. Or you're always beat up, even coming into the season. So it's just not as fun when you're down, and you got to work your way up. And you can't really get there because you're so beat up.

I've had several unavoidable problems because of my athletic career.

There is one good thing about reaching the bottom. When you get there, there's nothing left to do but fight your way back up or die.

I hated to miss games... at the height of my career, I missed a lot of games due to... just a hamstring pull. And I hated sitting out. I just hated it. You play for your team, but you also play for the people who attend the games.

I learned that when life pulls you under, you can kick against the bottom, break the surface, and breathe again.

Injuries make you stronger.

I had a pretty bad injury the end of my freshman year in college, and that taught me just to be patient.

Lots of people talk about the character of our team, that it's not right and that we need to do more. But we always show that we can come back.

Manchester United have always stood up again and bounced back; it's just in the DNA.

I am proud of my scars because they show I dedicated myself to a bigger purpose.

Just because you are getting hurt doesn't mean you can't come back and win.

Any injury I have had, I have come back stronger.