I think sports is part of the healing process for society.
When I used to see things in the newspapers, going onto the pitch was the best way to get away from it.
Football is a great place to get away from things, and going over to Greece was amazing and I've loved it - it is basically getting away from all the talk.
I was an angry kid, and boxing kept me out of trouble.
I've learned that football sometimes was an outlet. It was a way for me to release anger, release frustration.
Thanks to the football, every time I go out and play, it releases the tension, and you forget about the problems.
The physical aspects of the game, it's probably the highlight for me. It's a way for me to get a lot of anger and stress off of my shoulders.
I have two lives, and all the problems I might have, I feel like I drop them once I step on to the match court.
Every time I'm ever in L.A., if I have anytime off - which is rare - I'll go straight to the basketball court and play. That's a way for me to escape and get my mind off everything. I'm so competitive, so if I'm playing basketball, all I'm thinking about is winning.
I played tennis a lot when I had the skull injury. For the first two months of my preparation, it was all I could do. It is a great sport for me because it helps my hand-eye coordination, and you need quick feet, which is a good exercise for a keeper.
I shall tell my doctors baseball has more curative powers than all their medicine.
I run angry. Football allows me to take out some of my pain on the field.
When I get into a bad mood, I do sports and then everything's OK. And then I go and make decisions, however painful they may be.
The town, the team, it's a family. That has helped. For some people who have had to deal with some of the problems I have had to deal with don't have football as an out.
I feel like basketball is my outlet. Basketball is an opportunity for me to get all my emotions out.
I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts.
Over the years, I am very lucky that I didn't submerge into a form of depression, because football saved my life really.
Basketball is therapeutic for a lot of us. We all love, live and breathe basketball.
I love sports because it takes me away from reality, and I tell people, 'No matter how bad your life is, if you are having problems at home, you are having problems at work, that's the beauty of sports.'
Snooker lifted me out of depression.
Basketball saved my life.
When I'm on the court, I feel all problems go away.
Baseball is a diversion. It is therapy. It takes peoples minds off of everything that has happened, if just for a while.
Football is not a job, but my best therapy
I was very fortunate to play sports. All the anger in me went out. I had to do what I had to do. If you stay angry all the time, then you really don't have a good life.
