Jack Wilshere Quotes

I'm not in the business of suffering.

I was in a very deep, dark slump, and I needed to find a way to get myself out of it. I had to force myself back out into life, back out into experiencing things.

I can't understand people who give up and commit suicide. If I have a bad day, I figure tomorrow will be better. And even if it isn't, at least it isn't any worse.

While I still have more good days than bad days, I'm going to keep playing.

I think you can be depressed and flourish, I think you can have cancer and flourish, I think you can be divorced and flourish. When we believed that happiness was only smiling and good mood, that wasn't very good for people like me, people in the lower half of positive affectivity.

I do not have bad days. I don't wake up in the morning and think that I'm going to get AIDS. I don't dream bad dreams about it. If I did, I'd be giving in to the negativity.

It's hard when you get down. You start pressing a little bit trying to get back in the game.

I have this thing I say to myself that 'tomorrow can be better.' And I remember that period in my life where I never felt like tomorrow could be better. It was always dread for the next day.

I got very depressed. Hollywood can be a terrible place when you're depressed. The pits. I decided I had to change my life and do different things.

If I let myself sink into depression, I won't be able to get out. And then I'll be awfully unhappy. I just have to turn my face to the light and walk on. And trust that things will be all right.

I've been depressed many times in my life. But under it all I'm an optimist.

I'm a creative person who had a lot of dark time in my life. I can still get to it: I can still go to a relationship or a time when things weren't great. But it's getting further and further from me.

I'm just into having fun, because I went through some bad years that really depressed me and made me angry.

When I get down, I don't waller around for long.

I think it's about not just the crisis you're in, but how do you get to the other side? How do we heal? How do we survive this experience while remaining hopeful instead of filled with despair? That's what interests me.

Everyone gets depressed. But what do you do? You just go through it.

I went through a tough time after leaving 'tennis.

Any athlete will tell you that it's the most difficult thing in the world being injured.

I like to be busy, especially after I lost against Luke Rockhold. The best way to recover is to get another fight.

It's always hard to deal with injuries mentally, but I like to think about it as a new beginning. I can't change what happened, so the focus needs to go toward healing and coming back stronger than before.

I do a lot of book signings and conventions every year, and I meet a great many readers who are struggling... they're working through illness, injury, addiction, depression, grief, or some other trauma. It seems to me that there's a lot of heroism in fighting those things as well, as best you can.

Today, I don't have any psychological scars, because I am a realist and an optimist. After all, I can't lose my legs twice.

I learnt in South America and in Africa that people who have really big problems in the ghetto always keep a sense of humour and remain positive. If not, you go down.

I feel like I didn't really know how to cope with not playing well.

Before 'MOOO!' there were times when I was definitely at a low. I wasn't getting that much support from people around me.