Iker Casillas Quotes

You're in a combat zone one day. You come home, and then you have to readjust, and it takes a few days. We just sit in the house, hang with the family and then things get better.

Going home to Australia, it's good to get home, but it's kind of bad too because you get used to that way of life again and you have to come back to America.

For me, leaving the Marine Corps was more disorienting than returning home.

It's always a little more difficult after taking a few years off, which we did from 2004 through 2008. It's more difficult to get the machine in gear again, but when you become used to it, then it becomes easier.

Well, probably having to be away from home. When I come back I kind of feel like there's a routine going on that I'm not a part of, so that can be difficult.

I was at rock bottom for a year and a half - and the people who got me out of my rut were my fans.

With the likes of social media and outside influences - we're going to be on telly a lot more - I think it's important that you listen to the right people, whether it's your team-mates, your parents, or your coaches, and don't take too much to heart.

Gravity always sucks. It really, really does. It's a big challenge just re-adapting to feeling heavy again, you know? Even my arm feels heavy. My legs feel heavy.

When you first come back from a long-term injury, you're just trying to get your body in order and trying to get back into the training and match routine.

The most uncomfortable thing about going to space is coming home. It's a little strange to get used to gravity again.

I had a couple of severe injuries, and it's not easy to watch your team from a bed in a hospital!

I always have an adjustment period where I'm so happy to be home, but then my sense of purpose is totally gone.

... I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger.

My forgiving you doesn't make my heart hurt less. It takes awhile to heal.

The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.

There's no question that the striving, the stuff that you got out of [sports]. The depending on someone right beside you. Sitting here and calling on yourself when you're tired or getting through something painful, watching your teammates do the same. Everybody feels good when you first walk out there.

For a while you get mad, then you get over it.

And that was my homecoming. It was fine, I guess. Getting back feels like your first breath after nearly drowning. Even if it hurts, it's good.

I used to kind of blame someone for not being able to get through that - I'm talking about the addiction part - but I've had a few experiences recently where you don't blame the person anymore.

When people go to rehab and come out, they go through a difficult period, a lot of people. I never had that. I was so glad to be rid of all that crap that for me, to learn again and to function as a human being and learn how to participate in the human race again was just pure joy.

Healing takes time, and asking for help is a courageous step.

A leader's job is to help his people.

Probably the most difficult scene to film was the one where I'm attacked. I haven't thought about it in a while because, in hindsight, you make jokes about it and you get funny stories from it. When I was talking about it earlier today, I started to realize that it took a couple days probably to get over. Even if you can laugh about it, it's still the physical things that your body has to go through, it's pretty insane.