Quotes About Adaptation

In sport there is never any moment that is the same as the other. I have been in Formula One for 12 years, and out of that I had one year with the perfect car.

I overcame size with mechanics.

I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.

I was always very physical, growing up, and did sports. I like to get out and do different things, and walk in different shoes. I like change. I like challenge.

I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.

When I came to America in 1978, I was a huge sports fan - the problem was, my sport was cricket. Shockingly enough, no one wanted to talk cricket with me!

It's good for your career as a sportsman if you watch other professional sports - how they're behaving and how they react in difficult situations.

Sportswriters have changed more than sportswriting.

I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost.

When I'm shooting on location, you get ideas on the spot - new angles. You make not major changes but important modifications, that you can't do on a set. I do that because you have to be economical.

For a long time, I thought I was going to play basketball. There's not many 6-4 white guys playing the three spot in the NBA, so I realized I probably didn't have much of a future in basketball and that football was probably going to be my best bet.

When you put a new show out, you always have a few kinks that you need to iron out, and you need to dial your show in. You figure out over a couple of weeks what songs work well together and what songs may not have the impact you thought they would at that spot in the show.

When you're older and get more experience, the game slows down for you. I know exactly what spot to get to where I can always get my shot off no matter who's guarding me.

Now I know that when you do come to a new club, you have to fight for your spot if you want to be in the line-up week in, week out.

If you go to a team that's fighting for a playoff spot, you just want to fit in. That's all you want to do. Go in with an open mind and let yourself take it in.

It's a game of adjustments. Your hands aren't going to be in the right spot 100 percent of the time.

I stopped eating dairy; it's hard, being from New York I have a soft spot in my heart for pizza.

You can't stand still in one spot, no matter how good it is. You have to do something new, keep trying. That's everything.

I didn't play the No. 4 spot much at all in Europe.

I've pretty much been in every situation in terms of the roster... like roster spot 1-15.

For a big man, it's a little different because you don't always have the ball. Not handling the ball and playing pick and roll and doing all that where you can find your spot. You're kind of depending on others a lot.

Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment.

I honestly believe going independent is the future. Social is changing, Spotify is changing, everything is changing.

I've got used to being on 'The Chase' and keeping nice and calm and that feels like comfort now compared to being in the spotlight and being on stage.