It's an emotional time for you when you get injured. You're going through so much. You have a lot of time to think to yourself.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Whenever you're coming off a serious injury, it takes time to heal.
It's always hard to deal with injuries mentally, but I like to think about it as a new beginning. I can't change what happened, so the focus needs to go toward healing and coming back stronger than before.
People ask me why I keep getting injured but I have just had to accept it is one of those things that happen.
Injuries are not only a physical question, which is the most important thing, of course, but also a question of your mind. If you're thinking: 'I'm not going to make it', 'I can't cope', 'it hurts', 'it's never going to get better', then it won't.
When you have an injury, you are hindered a little bit.
When you go through a significant injury and have a major career change, you truly do go one year at a time, and you don't look past what's going on now, because you are not sure what's going to happen. Tomorrow is not promised.
Coping with injuries is always difficult for athletes because all we want to do is, basically, to have our best performances unhindered.
When you're playing football, and your enemies are there, you don't have a lot of time to think to yourself. You've got stuff to handle. You've got places to be, meetings to go to, bigger fish to fry. You really don't attack the emotional side of your life.
When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed.
It's a mental battle trying to come back from injuries and I don't feel like having that mental battle with myself.