Quotes About Adjustment

England's very different. I was at Barcelona for 10 years, and it's another world.

I played baseball growing up, second base, and then when I got to high school,it just didn't exist there.

Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.

I'm getting the basics with the AFL, but the NFL is a different animal.

It took me a while to realize that basketball wasn't football.

I played high school basketball at six feet, then I went to 5-11 in my 50's, and then, bang, I went down to 5-9.

I think that's one of the things you start learning from being hot and playing every day at the beginning, you know. The league, they made their adjustments and their change to you, the way they pitch you, the way they attack you, and just learning and learning from that and making the adjustments the very next at bat or the very next pitch.

No matter where I bat I try to adapt to the situation.

Obviously international football is going to be different, I understand that.

You want to be prepared for when you have to stop playing.

I've never been known for being a team player, but I've adjusted to being part of a big cast and it has worked out beautifully.

I used to write things out beforehand. But sometimes it backfires.

It is not easy to behave and be someone else if one does not prepare well for it.

I've always been confident in my rugby ability but with England I had to adjust my behaviour.

I have changed my behaviour on the pitch in England. Here referees talk to the players all the time. I think it is nice.

I take every season as it being different.

Entweder suchen wir uns aus, was wir veraendern, oder wir werden diejenigen sein, auf die sich Veraenderungen auswirken

Muttering, rolling our eyeballs upward, we are becoming a new kind of bivalve

Be a surfer. Watch the ocean. Figure out where the big waves are breaking and adjust accordingly.

La vie change après, mais on ne peut pas s'imaginer comment. Cela prend du temps à comprendre, pas comme un déménagement où on ne trouve plus rien. Non, tout est à sa place, mais rien n'est pareil. Sauf qu'on ne le sait pas avant longtemps. On le sait, bien sûr, mais on se demande pourquoi il n'y a pas plus de preuves.

Don't be discouraged or disheartened because transformation gets messy. You are going to have to adjust things on the fly and there is going to be a lot of ambiguity. And sometimes it is going to be two steps forward and three steps back because the next day you will take four and one. You better have a lot of energy and persistence because this is a long-distance race and not a sprint.

Albert Einstein said that the definition of insanity is continuing to try the same approach to solve a problem but expecting different results.

People change, you know. When you leave your country, you are like a plant taken out of soil. Some people turn hard, they can't flower again.

It's funny when you're a kid how you can acclimate to almost anything.