Jack Butland Quotes

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

When you get injured for a long time, it's not nice because you are out of the team and not involved anymore.

We all have times when we go home at night and pull out our hair and feel misunderstood and lonely and like we're falling. I think the brain is such that there is always going to be something missing.

I talked with labels and they wouldn't help with my international career. They said, 'Saara, if you're in Finland you just have to sing in Finnish.' That led to this situation where I felt very lonely. I was really sad and still I was doing gigs all the time. I'd go onstage crying but I was still trying to sing.

To spend 17 months on the sidelines is tough for anyone, and it's hard to see everyone go out training and then to go and watch games at the Emirates Stadium.

I realize that I live on the bubble of insanity. I feel the weight of human suffering, loneliness and despair on me all the time. It's not getting easier; if anything, it's always right on the edge of my skin.

Like everyone else, I've had moments when I've felt that I've been losing my grip.

I need family support close because when you go to work, they are long days and it can get lonely.

I still love the preparation of the game. I think that actually helps you heal faster, still being around it; it keeps you motivated. It keeps you engaged, and I want to be around my teammates.

Injuries are nothing to be ashamed about.

I felt nobody would understand what was going on in my mind.

I think all teenagers feel alone, and that nobody else knows what they are going through and all that sort of stuff.

Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.

Nobody understands me, I'm really sensitive.

I'm perpetually lonely.

It's no fun being lonely.

One major challenge within happiness is loneliness. The more I've learned about happiness, the more I've come to believe that loneliness is a terrible, common, and important obstacle to consider.

Chronic pain can be very lonely. It can have a shame-based quality.

Yeah, two or three weeks ago I was fairly snappy. I've never been injured before and this year it feels like I've hardly played.

I wasn't that close to any of my teammates. I didn't find anyone to become a best friend. We don't stay in touch. They're all over the country, but I do not want to stay in touch.

Being away from the game you love so much, it will mess with your mind.

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?

I don't think that talking to anybody can help you - a writer or a nonwriter. So what do I do in Wisconsin? I don't know. I just slug through it.

Depression, for me, has been a couple of different things - but the first time I felt it, I felt helpless, hopeless, and things I had never felt before. I lost myself and my will to live.

It's never fun to be injured; it's always boring being on the side. You want to go back to help the team and to be able to play.