Quotes About Adaptability

All I can do is keep working, keep auditioning, keep talking to people - and whatever it takes to show other colors.

If I have a keeper who can play like a central midfielder, then I have 11 players rather than 10. Ive got a deep sweeper.

Iker Casillas is one of those keepers who always seems to be at his best in the really difficult games when he has hardly got anything to do but reacts when needed in those emergency situations.

Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.

I want to find material that piques my interest, keeps me outside the box and challenges me.

A good joke can work in New York and Kentucky.

I always say, if you keep your head in the sand, you don't know where the kick's coming from.

It's my job to be able to deal with adverse conditions as well as kick well in good conditions. I just look to prepare to go out to do well no matter what it is.

I didn't come from wrestling. I didn't come from boxing or kickboxing.

Rugby is a game where everything is connected - from your kicking game to your defence to your set piece and attack.

When I first arrived at Leatherhead, I banned our keeper from kicking it long.

I had to learn to do everything because I couldn't find another kindred soul. Now you see eighty people listed doing the same things I was doing by myself.

Because I have done different kinds of roles, I hope that people take me as an actor they want to experiment with.

I'm a character actor so I've jumped around to all kinds of things.

I've had three broken legs and two knee replacements. But I'm very good at apres golf.

I write and chop with my left hand and do everything else, including eating with a knife, with my right.

When they take away some of our main guys, I just find myself open sometimes and knock down shots.

I just kind of go by the theory of, 'Don't knock it until you try it.'

The key thing is knowing how to adapt. Adapting to the group that you have at your disposal; adapting to the place where you're working; adapting to the local environment. This is crucial: adaptability.

Don't let what you don't know scare you, because it can become your greatest asset. And if you do things without knowing how they have always been done, you're guaranteed to do them differently.

If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts.

True leadership knows not to go to extremes but knows how to confront and appreciate challenges.

I'm a third-culture child. It's an interesting concept. Having an American father, a South American mother, born in England, grew up in Hong Kong, went to school in Europe - it makes me a third-culture child, which means you take on the culture of the place where you live. So I'm very adaptable.

Fashion wasn't a label back in the '70s. We made our own clothes because we had no money.