Quotes About Adjustment

At times on overseas tours, we assess if there are more left-handers or right-handers in the opposition and accordingly, the team's composition is set.

But if I'm going to cause somebody else discomfort by my actions, then I should probably modify my actions toward them to make them as comfortable as possible.

My freshman and sophomore years in high school, I spent a lot of time trying to get back on the right track. I was arrested multiple times by the time I was 16, so I had a little harder time trying to adjust like a lot of us do in high school.

A sporting track doesn't always mean that it will only have grass on it.

My penalty for rocking the boat was being traded.

You get traded. It happens. It's part of the business.

Obviously, getting traded halfway through the year is always tough. New faces, new teammates, guys you played against but don't know on a personal level.

When you get traded, the first thing you have to do is self-reflect and think about how you can get better. It has only helped me become a better player and think the game through.

Most of the time, before you get traded, there are rumblings. I wasn't totally surprised that I was going to get traded - I anticipated it happening. And I wasn't surprised that I got traded to the Knicks, either.

When I first came to Atlanta, I did not want to come here; I got traded here.

If I get traded, I get traded. It's a part of the business.

Being traded and moving teams, it's difficult, especially when you have families.

Sometimes you can line up with a quarterback after getting traded or going to a new team, whether it's the draft or whatever, and it not go smooth.

Being traded a couple times - and I've been traded after winning Rookie of the Year - is out of your control.

Anytime you get traded, you are trying to figure out what freeways get you where, and where the meal room is, and where the locker room is, and you get yourself used to that.

If I were to be traded, I just have to be ready to play.

I've been through trades, having different coaches, everything under the sun.

Midseason trades are hard.

If you get basics that can be switched and piece it together, that is so important.

When you spend seven years with a group of people and suddenly you're not together, it's very jarring.

When in Rome, live as the Romans do. When elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere.

When you arrive at your destination, pay absolutely no attention to the thing people call jetlag.

It is easiest to lose your way in the forest after it is cut.

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.