Quotes About Adaptability

Touring doesn't kill me and I can handle it.

Touring is what you make it. I like to organise as much as possible myself.

That's part and parcel of touring England. You have to be very street smart and on your game. If you're not, the media and the ECB will have a field day with you.

If someone wants to shout at me and tell me I'm bowling badly, that's fine. I may not agree but it's fine. It's part of the experience of being a touring cricketer.

Mental and physical preparation is critical in tournament poker events like the WSOP.

Each tournament is different.

In tournament cricket, with a new opponent each game, I think you actually need to play to your own strengths more.

In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.

I'm a pretty low-stress guy. I take what the golf course gives me. Some days, when I'm in full control, I'm able to fire at pins with 5-irons. Other days, I'm looking more toward the middle of the green.

I can get on with all different sorts of people, and I never feel homesick, particularly, or I've never felt kind of patriotic towards any one country.

My specialty at 'SNL' was doing triage. There was always a great need for someone to say, 'Make this funnier. Give me an ending for this. What's a better big laugh for this towards the end? What's a better physical joke in this?' And I just really, over time, honed that specific thing so well.

The whole chameleon thing about acting. That's why I'm moving towards directing - it's a much more healthy occupation.

My sister and I grew up all over India, in quaint little towns, especially in the north and the east. Moving every two years made me very outgoing and very adaptable.

Don't take your toys inside just because it's raining.

I boxed. I did track and field; I did basketball, football, any sport I was able to sign up for.

I offer a proven track record in the big leagues that can hit left-handers or right-handers.

One thing I know in baseball is you should never be comfortable where you are. It doesn't matter who you are. It's a business. If I got traded tomorrow, no hard feelings; it's a business.

I look at it like this, this is what keeps me going: You see a lot of guys who are being traded and they get waived once they get to the team. That's never happened in my career. So once I've gotten traded, I've been able to sustain a role. I've been wanted.

Obviously I've been traded around, but at the same time I know my game, I know what I bring to the table and I know what I'm looking for as a player.

I went to a small school, so I had to be a jack of all trades and master a few.

I think my role, I want to have a presence both behind the scenes and in front of the camera. So I can't say on one particular thing, so I'll just name them all. I'll be the jack of all trades and hopefully decent at one of them.

My purist comedy friends accuse me of being a Jack of all trades and master of none.

If you get basics that can be switched and piece it together, that is so important.

The muscles that writers need for film are very different from TV muscles. Now, when I hire the writers and put the writers' room together, I know where their muscles need to be.