Quotes About Adaptation

When you have a way of playing or a mentality of playing, it's difficult to do something else.

If you live around dummies and fake blood for six months, it becomes a part of you. It's fake blood, but sometimes I still feel the real scent of blood, so it's more mentally collapsing, not only physical.

I went from being one of the best players, batting .550, to not being able to do it mentally, hitting .200. I thought I was mentally tough. But I couldn't hit the ball.

I felt, when I was 20, I wasn't quite ready for the physical contact of 82 games. Mentally, it was tough. I forgot what city we were in most of the time. I can't even imagine going through it at 18 or 19.

We get older, we get more mature and stronger mentally. You learn to deal with different situations.

Some players aren't able to show their ability in Europe, but some players can - I think the most important quality in the successful players is that they are mentally strong.

The biggest thing for Asian players to remember is the football style is different in Europe - as is the culture - so they have to accept that. Mentally, they need to be ready and very strong.

To be a supersub is mentally hard.

One thing about computers and iPhones is they're making people mentally lazy.

I had four seasons with Brondby in Denmark and they were crucial, mentally. The first two seasons there, I score nine goals, then nine goals. Then we get a new coach, Alexander Zorniger. A German guy. The next two seasons, I score 20 then 17.

I've gone from being an 11.9sec runner to being a 13.5sec runner which mentally is quite hard.

I liked The Slipper and the Rose, as I have already mentioned, because it was such a lovely film to do.

When I lost my hearing, my mom got a deaf mentor to come into the home.

In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.

Back in the early days of international, everybody wanted to customize the menu for every place.

You don't sell as many records as you used to because of illegal downloads, but I think there are other ways you can make money through your music. Whether it's through merchandise or teaming up with other companies or brands or whatever, there are ways.

In any merger, the biggest challenge is always integration of human resources because the people who are coming in have a lot of apprehension.

'The Iron Lady' is not a biopic. Phyllida Lloyd and Meryl Streep coined it 'King Lear for girls.'

I'm used to changing a lot of the dialogue. But if I feel like the script is working, I don't want to mess with it.

In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.

'Coriolanus' has been around for 400 years, and it's going to be around for another 400 years, and nothing I can do is going to mess it up. So, going into it, I felt sort of very free to look at it as a filmmaker does.

I am always attracted to the moments when a person who is associated with a certain message, image or sensibility evolves. I am very interested in how audiences respond to that maturation and absorb the evolution.

It was complicated in Italy - not just for the language, but also for the way I transmitted my messages and my ideas.

I would have absolutely messed up 'The Matrix'.