Quotes About Adaptation

Everybody - come on - everybody is going to get traded at some point.

When I first came to Atlanta, I did not want to come here; I got traded here.

If I get traded, I get traded. It's a part of the business.

You'll be on one team this minute, then the next day you get traded. So, I mean, I knew how the business works... It happened to me.

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.

Sometimes you can line up with a quarterback after getting traded or going to a new team, whether it's the draft or whatever, and it not go smooth.

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.

Anytime you get traded, you are trying to figure out what freeways get you where, and where the meal room is, and where the locker room is, and you get yourself used to that.

If I were to be traded, I just have to be ready to play.

When in Rome, I must do as the Romans do. When in America, make Bikram copyright and trademark.

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

Trades happen in the NBA. I've had a lot of teammates in my six years, so I know kind of how it works.

I was born in Missouri, but I was raised in Detroit. One of my stock and trades is accents.

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.

It's fun to see all the trades. Unless it's you.

You know, this idea of going around the world imposing democracy by growing a middle-class, a trading merchant class that is independent of your faith, is a good notion, but we're all partially different - it's no good imposing systems on people that it doesn't suit.

I think how I've gotten better, hopefully, at taking what I've got and being able to mish-mash something together, and as long as it feels real to me in the moment, then it feels like a success.

We really need to get it together here. I think we humans are so brilliant and creative, can't we try something else?

We welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace.

It had taken years to put themselves back together, and so what if some things didn't get put back in the right place? At least they could hold themselves up.

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