Quotes About Adjustment

When I get off the plane in England I always feel about two inches shorter.

Everybody has to take curveballs as they come in life and hopefully have the ability to adjust their plans.

In this business, you can't make any plans.

You learn yourself, as a player, what you can handle at the plate, what you can't.

Our hitting coaches have done a great job of understanding when I don't look right at the plate and getting me back on track.

For so long I focused on all that I had lost - my legs, my anonymity, even my freedom in a way. I couldn't jump in the car, blast some music and just get away for a bit. I couldn't play basketball with my brothers. I couldn't even get up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom without making it some sort of production.

After I hurt the knee, football wasn't nearly as much fun. I was limited. But you make do with what you have. I adjusted some. I was lucky to play as long as I did, with the different kinds of injuries I got. I played with two severed hamstring muscles in my leg late in my career. I could barely run, other than to drop back to pass.

When I was coach at Ajax, in the first half of the season, the players needed time to adapt to me, to know who I am as a person and as a coach.

I'm just trying to get used to playing everywhere on the floor.

We're going through a period of retrenchment as the dynamics of the playing field are changing.

The beauty about the playoffs is how you make an adjustment, how you come back game-to-game, and to be locked in and focused to win.

The first game of the playoffs is the worst. After that, you kind of settle down.

In my 20s, I could just power through stuff and be fine, but now, in your 40s? It's kind of like Kobe Bryant. He plays basketball a little bit differently than he did when he first started out.

Now, although my life is still pleasant, the days of easy money are over.

I started training again four months after giving birth, and it was strange not to be fully in control - I'm so used to my body performing at a certain level, but it wasn't. I was like, 'Oh, man, can we go back to where we were, please?'

It will really break my heart when I say bye to 'Breakfast'... but I will be pleased to get my life back.

I'm pleased to say my knee feels a lot better. It's still not back to normal, and I don't know if it ever will be, but I'm learning to deal with it instead of expecting it to be like it was before.

As soon as I hear that there's something to get used to, I know that I won't; I sort of pledge myself to not getting used to it.

I never planned on being a plumber.

The important thing to understand, from my point of view, is if the opponents break our lines and they are attacking our box, something has gone wrong, and it is me who has to fix it. But fouls in football are normal. You have to do it sometimes.

I think in terms of how my game developed on clay that was amazing.

When the guy is too good - you know, playing clean and you're playing very bad, I mean not that good - you need to change.

It's always an adjustment period when you are with a new team. Things don't necessarily click how you want them to.

It doesn't always click for a new player in a new team: you don't always go in and hit the ground running and score all the time.