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To admit you want to have a comeback means you have to admit you weren't what you were supposed to be. You dropped below your own standard.

I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.

By making a comeback, I'm changing the attitude of people toward me. If I'd known that people would react so enthusiastically, I'd have done it years ago.

My comeback was not about winning or losing; it was about the feeling of being able to compete at top level again.

I think about making a comeback every single day. I went running, I went training, did that for a few days. But my body couldn't handle it.

Looking back, yes, I made too many comebacks. But each comeback I was 100 percent sure that I would win. I never came back for the money, because I didn't need it. The adulation I was getting anyway in other spheres. But I'm a guy who likes to see how close he can get to the edge of the mountain - that's what makes me tick.

I had to bring myself back down to being a normal person again.

I'm like a 'comeback kid' - you can't keep me down for long!

Some people don't like the 'comeback' because that suggests they went somewhere, which they didn't. That isn't what I mean. In my mind, people were doing well, and then they went right down, and they made a comeback. It's not that they went anywhere. It's that their fortunes went way down, and then they came back.

For some reason, every time I peak in my career, I injure myself. So, I'm constantly on the comeback trail.