Quotes About Adaptation

I am really happy here in Manchester and we will just see what happens in the future.

I will not lie. When I first came to Manchester City, I felt lost about everything.

I arrived when I was a kid; I was just 17. I would have liked to have played more, but I learned a lot in Manchester.

I am happy to have made the move to Manchester City.

The Manchester move was OK. I was still in England and I knew I could go back home.

When I came to Manchester, it was a bigger step from when I was in Villarreal. It is something that is not easy, when you come to a team where there are players that have more experience in the English league.

When you've played at Manchester United, it's hard to go anywhere else.

When you have played for Manchester United, it is difficult to go elsewhere.

I've done most of my career with Barca, with the exception of the period I played for Manchester United.

I moved when I was about 12 years old: different school, had to live in digs. It was harder for my family, but eventually, they understood it was a path that Manchester United had made for me. I had to stick to it, and it has paid off.

Things didn't quite work out at Manchester United for various reasons, but that's in the past.

I think the first time I had to play at left-back was at Manchester United in the Europa League.

I'm a player coming into Manchester United, I've got to adapt like every other, no matter how old I am.

There are loads of novels that I really love, like Haruki Murakami's books, and when I read them, I do think about how they would work as an anime. But I do believe that those are great books because they work best as novels, or great manga work best in that form.

I moved to New York when I was eight years old, in 1978. I grew up in Manhattan. I couldn't speak any English, and I had dyslexia, so it took me many years before I could read.

I've learned not to be as maniacal as I used to be.

I knew I could make it in Cebu, but I never thought I could make it in Manila.

I am not someone like A. B. de Villiers, Gayle, or Dhoni. I don't have that much power. I have to use my brain to manipulate the field and stick to my strength, which is to hit through the lines.

I literally can't get anywhere now without the map on my phone. I used to use an A-Z when I first came to London, and now I really struggle because there's no dot to show where I am. And I think that part of my brain doesn't work any more.

Should I get back to playing like the 18-year-old Mario Gotze again? I will never be the old Mario Gotze again.

People need to go back and remember what it was once like to lead businesses in emerging markets.

I know some people see it as this success when the book is finally made into a movie - that marks its success. I don't see it that way.

Marriage changes everything.

In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.