Quotes About Adjustment

Start going to bed earlier! It is a tough adjustment when you have had a summer of staying up late and waking up late.

Getting into a sleep routine before the first week of school will aid in easing the shock of waking up early.

I'm not used to waking up early at all.

It's hard when the season ends and you're not waking up no more for practices, games. You're not in your routine no more.

If I lose my job at a furniture factory where I've worked for decades, no amount of cheaper toys and raincoats at Wal-Mart is going to make me whole again.

Moving from Wales to Italy is like moving to a different country.

On the first day of school, you got to be real careful where you sit. You walk into the classroom and just plunk your stuff down on any old desk, and the next thing you know the teacher is saying, 'I hope you all like where you're sitting, because these are your permanent seats.'

The crowd reaction is something that I definitely love. When I first started if I walked out from behind that curtain and heard a pin drop or deafening silence, then you have to look at switching something up.

If I had my career to play over, one thing I'd do differently is swing more. Those 1,200 walks I got, nobody remembers them.

It was a big-time change, coming off the bench.

I'm not used to being on the bench.

Coming off the bench was an adjustment for me.

It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.

I have to do a better job of learning how to adjust.

That makes you a better player, when you go through the process of seeing what other teams are doing to you.

When guys are trying to better themselves or their career, they go to a new team or a new coach. It happens every day in this sport. What's the big deal?

If you're in big-time situations all the time - like for me, high school was big-time situations, college, big time situations - you adapt.

For me, the biggest thing is to adjust from college to a professional setting.

Whether you're in a blockbuster or an art film, you have to be able to adapt.

I seen a lot of changes. You got to make changes. I even make changes in my blues.

I started working with Bob in 1965. We did go through a lot of changes from 65 to 74, a lot of changes. By 1974, everything had straightened itself out.

Any time I hear 'border adjustment,' I don't love it. Because usually it means we're going to get adjusted into a bad deal.

When I was just four-and-a-half, my parents separated and both my parents remarried.

Change never bothers me, not really.