Quotes About Challenges

I got traded in the middle of an injury - my ankle injury - so in '09, I came back and just kind of flukishly had some success. I was far, far from healthy. I came back in 2010 still nursing that ankle injury. Yeah, it was a rough, rough go. My first few years in Chicago were not much fun.

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.

I came into the league traded. So I'm not the only person that goes through trade rumors each year.

There are so many things that you have no control over: whether you play or not, whether you get traded or not, or whether you get waived or not.

I've been told a million things in this league. I was Rookie of the Year, and then got traded... So it's hard for me to sit back and believe everything I hear.

I almost got traded my rookie year or my second year in the league.

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

You know, my first nine years I only played for two teams, Chicago and New York. And the only reason I got traded from New York was the 2010 free agency period, when they had a chance to sign LeBron and D-Wade and that whole class, and I understood that. But from there it's kind of been a roller coaster.

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

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

The hardest thing to do in this league is to get a proven star. It's just very hard to do. It's hard to do in free agency; it's hard to do in trades. You get very few opportunities to do it.

Midseason trades are hard.

When you have a coaching change, when you have trades, an injury, when you have all these things happening - these are all things that are out of your control. Quickly, you start to understand that, really, the only thing you can control is going out and playing hard every night and being ready for your opportunity.

Two of the most difficult parts of our business is trades and when a player leaves.

When you are a rookie you are going through everything for the first time, your first DNP, your first not seeing eye to eye with a coach, first understanding trades happen, guys making more money play more. I was overwhelmed. I had a lot of maturing to do.

The rollercoaster has its ups and downs, loops and twists but enjoy the ride. We are all on it together.

How do you fight the stagnation of monogamy and the monotony of time together?

Being the chief minister of a regional government is just a pastime compared with the hellish job of being prime minister of two different communities brought together.

We go through the good, the bad and the ugly all together.

When you have two people, separate beings, trying to share one life together. That's always going to have difficulties.

The [economic crisis] means that we have to address the challenges and the risks, and we need to take into account the level of resources. Doing better with less means doing it more together.

In the United States Senate, we cannot do great things without reaching across the aisle and working together - and I look forward to the challenges ahead.

You can't let a candidate run for too long. He will be dragged along, cut apart, put back together and ripped to shreds again - from both the political opponents and the media.

That one hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected.