Sammy Hagar Quotes

People think I'm crazy because I travel too much, but I haven't been doing any of that lately because I got a little sick this year and I've tried to take care of it.

I've had some surgery and shoulder problems.

Playing professional sports, it's important to eat healthy and take care of your body. In the offseason, rest is really important to me.

Nutrition is important, training is important - but so are rest and recovery, massages, acupuncture. Your body is your temple, and you've got to take care of it.

I've been operated on 13 times.

I've been unfortunate enough to be working, and recovering from a few injuries now and again.

My main problem has been staying healthy.

I've gone through back surgery a couple times, and of course, my radiation treatments for six weeks got me to the point where I was not able to play at the level that I was accustomed to.

I'm in three bands, and I love to produce records of other bands, and I have a family that I love. I wanted to be everything for everybody and do all of that... I think I just really beat myself up until I got really sick and needed surgery, because it was physically manifesting itself.

Obviously I'd love to have kids and all that. Luckily, as a man, there's not such an egg timer on it, but I'd like to be able to pick them up without Nurofen first.

A year ago I had a back injury and followed a good nutrition program to help speed up my recovery. I focused on exercise and staying healthy in order to get back out on the ice.

You gotta take care of you body, get the right treatment, eat right so you're ready to go the next day.

I had two surgeries during the early part of 2012, and I was advised to restrict my work load.

I was born with a heart murmur. When I was 21, the stress of the career and traveling - the lack of sleep and just not eating right - had taken its toll. Our schedules had been pretty crazy for about three years, and there was no rest at all. So in order to continue on and, you know, have a life, I had to fix it.

I think sometimes the best training is to rest.

I've had nine major operations in ten years. A lot of it is to do with something called retroperitoneal fibrosis, where the internal tissues attack each other.

Fortunately, the shooting pain in my back masked the pain of my broken sternum.

We can't ignore signals that our bodies are giving us when something is wrong.

I have had about 15 operations due to the wrestling profession, and I have a problem with an abdominal hernia.

My main reason for leaving WWE was to heal up my body - to give it a rest - and to spend time with my wife and my kids.

I've done what I could as far as getting physically healthy after my knee injury, and I've done what I could to get mentally healthy after losing my husband.

When you're tired, it doesn't mean go harder. It means take care of your body.

Only we were in The Cranberries. Only we know what it was like being in that crazy whirlwind of fame. We have children and spouses and lives, but there is only one Cranberries.

Honestly, I just try to take care of my body as much as possible: eating, recovery, just making sure that I'm always on top of staying healthy and making sure my body is 100 percent throughout the season.

I think recovery is around the clock. Are you sleeping enough? Are you hydrating enough? Are you stretching? Are you eating well? Pretty much everything that I do is a reflection of how I'm going to feel on the field. I take great pride in getting in an ice bath after training and just taking care of myself.