Lee Corso Quotes

I mean, I think I'm doing a lot better than other people that have had shoulder surgery in their careers. Some people have never come back.

I hit rock bottom before I even went there. Actually, prison was the rescue mission that God had put on me. He sent out his angels to rescue me. In prison, he protected me the whole time I was in there, and it was just for me to get my will power back, to get my strength back, get my focus together.

I was amazed at the support that I got when I was in there. And when I came out people knew that I was back on track. I was interested in working again.

If tomorrow all of America were to become paternalistic, we would beat the Japanese every day of the week. I think that the concept of accusing someone of running a paternalistic company, that's not an accusation. One should compliment someone on that.

So we have a commitment to the business and to its people.

Everyone I tell that I had an aneurysm always says, 'Oh, my cousin died from that.' Well, I didn't, so I'm amazed. I was in a wheelchair, and I had to go to rehab. And now I'm walking!

Many years ago, when I was working on Broadway, I used to go to a drug rehabilitation centre on Sundays. I didn't lecture them against the perils of drug-taking; I gave them drama therapy.

They saved my life but the accident was unavoidable so there was no point feeling sorry for myself. I just wanted to race again.

It's always an honour to help the Anfi Group - a hotel timeshare company where my mother worked for many years and which I will always support.

You can't buy the loyalty that ESPN has showed to me.

Companies must put infrastructure in place to support their female employees and ensure that they receive the benefits of male and female leadership.

That's one thing with stroke victims, you've got to have a goal and you cannot accept anything but that goal.

You never want to see a guy go on the DL.

It was one of those things that I set forth as a goal after my surgery. I have been working very hard with the trainers and the team personnel.

I, myself, have not infrequently come across recovering addicts years later that I had given up on. It is like seeing a ghost come to life. The transformations can be astonishing.

Organizations aren't loyal; they can't be. They have to be nimble, they have to change. That means everybody in every organization will have one eye on his or her own brand, and the other eye on the organization of which he or she is a part. And the first loyalty - self-loyalty - is becoming more and more dominant, simply as a survival strategy. I'm in no way blaming anyone here; this is just simply a fact of life.

Last year I had a stroke. It left me in bad shape. I had to teach myself how to walk and talk all over again. It was a long hard fight. My speech is not perfect but I'm getting there.

Redemption means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong. So I think a lot of people get hooked on drugs and when they get over that addiction they go out and they try to talk to kids and they try to work in rehab centers.

I made mistakes. I can’t whine about it. I’m the one that messed up and I’m paying the consequences. However, if I am given a second chance, I won’t need a third chance. And to be honest with you, I picked the wrong vice. I should have picked alcohol. I should have picked drugs or I should have picked up beating up my wife or girlfriend because if you do those three, you get a second chance. They haven’t given too many gamblers second chances in the world of baseball.

I cleaned up. I quit drinking, I quit doing drugs, I quit stealing, I quit breaking into houses, I tried to quit being a bad human being. I developed a conscience later in life than many. I call it the lost-time-regained dynamic.

I was actually grateful for being arrested, for the judge that promised me that I would go to prison if I didn't stay clean, because I listened to him and something clicked. Those two years when we were making album "Ultra" and I had to go back and forth to court to prove to the judge that I'd stayed clean, it gave me this time to suddenly realize, "Oh, I can do this, I can crawl my way back, I can get better. And I do want to be here."

Now, perhaps more than ever, we need more and more examples of healing. We need to learn what it takes to heal.

America is a country that believes in redemption.

I couldn't walk for almost three years. That was the greatest thing that happened. Instead of dancing, I sang.

I'm no alcoholic. I'm a drunkard. There's a difference. A drunkard doesn't like to go to meetings.