Quotes About Adaptation

Every case is different, but what I want to do first and foremost at Southend is to get the players up to speed.

When you change, you change with what you got. What I got is my speed. I got a little bit of my instinct and flair.

There's no way to practice or run or do anything to match the speed of the game.

In my mind, the speed of the game is mental.

My team has helped me improve in many factors - speed, power, experience, the mental game; how I see the fight game is different.

If you look at any league, they're all trying to figure out how to make the game more exciting, speed the game up, whatever it may be. In our case, it's the same.

Time will change and with it music will too. Our speed has changed, clothes have changed, food habits have changed, so why should music remain the same?

Perhaps if you are in support functions waiting on the warfighters to spell out the specifics of what you are to do, you can avoid the consequences of not reading. Those who must adapt to overcoming an independent enemy's will are not allowed that luxury.

I knew Chelsea had made some offers while I was at Shakhtar so when I eventually arrived here, after a short spell with Anzhi Makhachkala, it was amazing. Having David Luiz, Oscar and Ramires here when I joined was very important for me because they helped me a lot with the language and inside the club, so it was very helpful.

I was only in Scotland for four months or something, but I look back at that, and it was a big learning curve for me in that short spell. I went there with an open mind to show everyone in Scotland what I was about. Looking back, I am very glad with the decision I made.

My first loan spell I was 18. I went to Crewe, and I felt I'd scored all these goals for Liverpool's youth teams and I'd go to League One and it would be the same. I quickly found out that it wasn't. It took me to come back, captain the U23 side for a year and a half to really get my confidence back.

I don't need to run in and bowl 90mph every spell to get wickets.

I could keep McQuiston, but growing up it was a hard-work surname. Everyone would always ask me to spell it or just get it wrong. I could call myself Emma Weymouth, or maybe I should take the family name and become Emma Thynn.

According to the situation, your role changes in one-day cricket, especially in a phase like the Powerplay. If I bowl four spells, four times I will be playing a different role. If I come in the first Powerplay, and say the opposition are 70 for no loss after 10 overs, I will be looking to take a wicket.

In football, you can't always have it your own way. You can't always have the good times. You are going to have bad spells and periods when you are not playing well. It is something I have to deal with. I have learnt to deal with it.

You cannot keep doing the same things. According to the situation, your role changes in one-day cricket, especially in a phase like the Powerplay. If I bowl four spells, four times I will be playing a different role.

No one will bowl at 90mph all day every day. There will be spells when you have to bowl within yourself.

The past is the past. We're not going to spend energy on the past, because it's going to detract from us going forward.

After I lost my legs, all I wanted to do was snowboard again. I remember spending an entire year on the computer, looking for 'adaptive snowboarders' or 'snowboard legs' or 'adaptive snowboard schools' or just something that I could connect to. I already knew how to snowboard - I just needed to find the right legs.

When I came back into show business in '88 after spending 20-odd years in the civil service, it wasn't planned.

We're all spending way too much of our time and energy trying to fight the stuff we can't change.

In May 2006, I had our son, Calder. I spent the next couple of years learning how to be a mom.

I spent a lot of my childhood moving around, so I was constantly adjusting to different environments and finding a new identity.

We have spent our entire existence adapting.