Quotes About Adaptation

You have to adapt and find your niche, in terms of the type of player you can become, both on and off the pitch. I always knew I'd have no chance against a 1.90m, 90kg defender in a duel, so the key is to avoid these situations altogether. You have to pick your space and time.

I have absolutely no idea about space exploration. I'm a software guy. But because I'm a non-expert, I've been able to bring the software concept of modularity into the space sector, which was never done before.

When it comes to the things that people really want in science fiction - like space travel - the simplest things end up causing them not to happen. Humans are 100-pound bags of water, built to live on Earth.

The game has gotten a lot faster. I was anticipating changes as far back as when I first came into the league, when the spacing was changing, and big guys were playing in different spaces on the floor. But when that change actually happens, and it happens so quickly, it's just amazing.

Sometimes people of color walk into these spaces that are dominated by the dominant culture, and we have to be better, not make as much trouble.

One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space.

I've come to a view that humans will continue to do what we do well, and that computers will continue to do what they do very well, and the two will coexist, but in different spaces.

I think that football has changed, it has become more complex. For example, it's faster, you have less free space, and you have to play from such small spaces.

Let's call a spade a spade - this Kaka of Real Madrid is not the same Kaka we used to know.

I didn't speak much Italian. I did a few courses so I knew a bit before I got there but you have to be there to learn. When I went out for lunch or dinner on my own it was very complicated to order. I spent two months eating the same thing. I always asked for spaghetti carbonara and a fizzy drink. Then I had to diet to lose the weight I gained.

I've always said that playing rugby in Spain is like being a bullfighter in Japan.

I've lived for two years in Croatia, one year in Japan, Brazil, Spain, and all those different countries.

I'd first come to Chelsea from Kosice and, for me, that was a dream. It's not easy making that move. I was maybe the first player to come from Slovakia to a club like Chelsea, who normally buy players from Holland, Spain, Italy, Portugal.

When I went to Spain, it was a risk because I was really young. But I quickly learned the game, and I grew as a result.

Moving to L.A. was hard. I had a career in Spain, and you have to forget your ego. I was a nobody again.

English football is different to Italy and Spain. You don't have that much time to calm down or relax because, all the time, the ball is on fire.

In Barcelona, Bayern Munich, in Spain and Germany we were able to do it. But people say, 'You only did it because you were in Barcelona and Bayern Munich. You will not be able to do it in England.' So, let's do it. We are going to try.

I absolutely would not have liked playing in Spain or somewhere like that, so I was just gonna do it a year. Then I was gonna be done.

If you go in Spain, you have to play with another style. The English culture is the English culture. If you come here, you have to play in this style.

It's true that the training and mentality in Spain is totally different to how it is in France.

I had to get used to it because my life was no longer safe and I was no longer protected like I once was.

Different people become different people when they meet different people.

Transition isn't pretty, but stagnation is hideous.

Reinvention is no rushed religion.