Quotes About Adaptation

There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past.

Christians and Jews alike are the new exiles of the contemporary world, struggling with how to sing the Lord's song in a strange land.

I'm like a Depression-era person as far as acting goes. It's sort of like, grab it while you can and make the most of what's in front of you. The first 'Avengers' opened up a host of things that I've been struggling to get made for a long period of time.

There's a thing about opinions... They are formulated over time. They tend to change with time, and you are going to change your mind many times.

Football doesn't depend just on your brain. It's not like on a computer. It depends on your body, too, and sometimes you are tired. Sometimes the opponent closes the space very well and marks you very well. Football depends on many things, not just on you.

If you have an opponent who is clearly better than you, then OK, you have something to analyse.

Every fighter fights in the ring the way his opponent lets him fight.

It's true there are a lot of frustrations, but it's down to me to try to put them to the side and concentrate on what's essential to me, my game and also to adapt to the opponent.

The more dangerous the opponent, the better fight I've fought. It always made me move in ways I'd never moved before.

You never show what you are going to do; you always do what the opponent doesn't expect.

Every player develops over time, as does every team and every opponent.

You can have a bad opponent out there and still get the job done. You just have to work around certain things.

You have to know your opponent and take him out of his game.

We must not dive into tackles but force the opponent to run so that maybe they will crack late in the game.

Every fight, I train for the opponent very hard and smart.

If I can hit a couple shots early, the opponent guards me in a different way.

If the opponent can score 10 goals, then we need to change something quickly.

Outside of Ring of Honor, I've also been working independent shows throughout the world, and lots of people I've never wrestled before and it's almost a different opponent every match.

I don't think much of automatisms, because they assume that a situation is always the same, otherwise the process no longer works. But that doesn't fit the reality with 22 players on the pitch. If the opponent is only half a metre to the left, the player suddenly doesn't know what he has to do.

I learn from my mistakes and I learned how to accept things and how to take them whenever my opponent changes.

When I'm training, I cater a little bit to my opponents.

Some fighters don't like to have their opponents changed on short notice. It really is a complicated situation because you prepared for someone for months, for a fighting style, and then the fight is off, but it's part of the job. It's natural, that's why we train every aspect of MMA.

There are no failures in life: only learning opportunities.

Change brings opportunities. On the other hand, change can be confusing.