Quotes About Adjustment

Security... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens.

I have always emphasized the willingness to discard.

At Wimbledon if it is slightly wet you don't even play the match. At the French Open you need to just get on with it and somehow adjust.

I think there's a time to work, and everyone has to kind of adjust. And then there's a time to relax, and be the mom or take the kids on vacation when you need to wind down. So it's a matter of planning, and being able to map out your year or your week or let's start with the day. It is just being multi-tasking and being available.

It was a lot to get used to, especially in warm-ups with the wind all over the place. As the meet went on it steadied out, so I was able to get some good looks to go back and train from.

Especially in wind, each shot and stance can feel different, so it's important to first get comfortable.

The wind can be quite extreme in England. We are not familiar with that in Germany, and you have to keep things simple.

Sometimes there are really severe conditions like super, super wind or crazy wind or something like that that you don't really get to practice for. But it's kind of you just show up and whatever you get in warm-ups, you kind of adjust to it and play as you go.

I can't go to the hardware store, cut a sheet in half and staple it to the window anymore. It doesn't fly.

I'd happily just stay on the road. Getting home from America, sitting in my kitchen with a cup of tea, staring out of the window is pretty depressing. I didn't have a tour manager to tell me what to do so I had to start reaching out to people and making plans. That was hard. You become very vegetable-y.

What I did before in my career you can pretty much throw out the window. Out of sight, out of mind.

Players who are not from the U.K. have to get used to the winds. I have to adapt my style as a result as well. Often, you are forced to keep things simple.

I had to give up a lot of foods that I'm accustomed to eating: dairy products, beer, wine, spicy food.

For two or three years I played on the wing, when I went to Boulogne in 2011, I started playing in the middle as a central midfielder.

It's tough to get wings deep post catches when you're playing with two bigs all the time.

I think I'm a three. But if we got three wings out there, I'll go play the four. As a four, I'm in the post a lot more. It changes your role.

Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

We have got a problem winning games in the league. We have to educate ourselves and maybe we have to not play the lovely football that we have been.

I think the mixture of pressure and elation after winning the world title took some getting used to and that impacted on my personal life big-time.

When I was in middle school, we had moved from Texas to Orange County. I didn't fit in, and it was pretty lonely.

Texas is more laid back, like Denmark is. So it was easier to adjust to that than to Los Angeles or New York for me.

Moving from Cameroon to Texas, that was a change. Learning English, the culture, everything was different so I had to adjust.

You can only adjust to so much history in your life. I still have trouble texting.

The first thing my mom told me after I reached Hyderabad was that I won't be going out on a two-wheeler.