Long-Term Absence Quotes

I went underground. So I didn't see [my father] for 11 years. So that was pretty traumatic time for my parents for sure.

Since I have already connected with fans on TV, I don't fear losing out on my movie fans, even if I am away from the silver screen for a long time.

It's a strange one - I've been away for 20 years now; I've been away longer than I lived in Canada, but for some reason I remain wholly Canadian.

Our club captain Gary Neville's been out for a year now, but Giggsy has taken up the mantelpiece.

I like to stay home. I don't want to be away shooting in Europe for six or eight months at a stretch.

As a fast bowler, if you are out of the game for five months, then that can be catastrophic, but to be out of the game for five years was very tough, and to make a comeback after such a lengthy period with no cricket behind me was a difficult ask.

I was approached to do something for seven years, and it was a quality project. I did seriously think about it, but I didn't want to be away for six months of the year. I've never done the L.A. thing where you go and have loads of meetings; I can't say to my wife, 'I'm going to wait by a pool for six months.'

I float from one project to another project, so you miss people and you don't see them for years.

I don't like leaving my dog when I go to England and she is with me all the time.

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 know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's called expatriate.

When you're younger you just want to go out and make your mark in the world and doing that, quite often, the people that you love the most and the people you should be closest to suffer from estrangement. I'd be gone nine months a year, so how do you know anyone? When you come home you are a stranger.

I don't really remember much before was eight, but I do remember that my dad brought me to drop me off at my grandmother's house, and he was a very emotional guy, but that was the first time I really saw him cry, cos I knew it killed him to have to give me up, but he knew I needed some family structure. That was the last time I'd see him or talk to him when he was sober for the next 10 years.

But when you are an injured footballer, especially when you are out for as long as I was, you find out all about the dark side of the game.