Kylie Bunbury Quotes

I was kind of at the turning point in my career with my knee. I was dealing with the struggles of trying to make the transition back on the court consistently and not a game here, then sit a game.

I damaged my hamstring at the London Olympics and had to stop training for five months. At times, I thought my career was over.

You see a lot of depression among injured sports stars who would rather be reaching their goals or at least doing what they love doing.

Am I ever going to be able to play football again? What's going on with my career? I was just thinking things like that. You've got tears going down your eyes. You've got your trainers right there and my parents right there. I was just thinking, "Is this it?" I didn't know what a knee injury was. I'd never felt pain like that.

The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce.

When it got to the diagnosis of my knee and when I realised how long I was going to be out, my thoughts spiralled out of control.

Psychologically, for an athlete to miss a game because of injury, it's tough.

It can be a lonely place when you are injured. You miss being out there with your team-mates and just experiencing the highs and the lows.

I've sustained a meniscus injury, shortly after that I sustained an ACL injury so really just going through that and going through some personal issues, personal problems within myself.

I made the varsity team as a freshman at 15. Then, I tore a tendon and never fully recovered. I was a shortstop, then third baseman, then second baseman.

I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.

An injured Zlatan is a pretty serious thing for any team.

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.

All of us know someone who has been through difficult emotional times, and we know how hard it can be to see a way forward.

People don't understand how hard it is to be injured, not to be part of the team but to watch from the side.

I didn't pick up a ball for three years. It was very depressing for me because, as a professional, it's very difficult when you can't use the facilities, play cricket; you can't even touch the ball, so what are you going to do then?

That's the worst part about all of the injuries and the criticism. It would be one thing if I had been healthy for five years and just sucked when I was on the court. But I can't prove what I can do because I can't stay healthy. Not having control over the situation makes it tough.

Not fighting, avoiding talking to fans... that's when the thoughts creep in about retiring and moving on to something else.

It was tough to quit football. But after I was injured, I didn't want people paying money to see only half a John Matuszak.

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.

There's no way I can go back and uninjure myself.

I got fired from WWE and it felt like our lives got turned upside down.

You reach a point where you're trying to survive. You're just trying to put the ball in play. You're not yourself. You're searching for your identity as a hitter on a nightly basis. That's just really hard. And it is not atypical at all for players to need to change their environment in order to rediscover who they are.

You want to do it on your own terms - not to be forced out because your body breaks down. I had to quit because of injury and I was crying for weeks. I used to wake up in the morning and think 'what am I getting up for now?'

I've had several broken bones and sprains throughout my career, but the one that really changed things was when I wrecked in 2008 during a Pro Snocross competition. I was thrown from my machine and landed on my left leg and caused a 180 degree hyperextension of my knee joint.