Quotes About Adaptation

What supermarkets did to small neighbourhood shops is what digital platforms will do to cinema.

With foxes we must play the fox.

I can have an accent and not have an accent, so it's really cool. I can play with it. I can be very Sofia Vergara, too, so it's really cool.

Someone once accused me of slumming. I don't know what that means. I play basketball. And through that, I get to see a world that is not smart-kid world.

I never thought I'd play basketball in China.

For so long I focused on all that I had lost - my legs, my anonymity, even my freedom in a way. I couldn't jump in the car, blast some music and just get away for a bit. I couldn't play basketball with my brothers. I couldn't even get up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom without making it some sort of production.

I was a 6-foot-tall 13-year-old who couldn't play basketball. I moved around all the time as a kid, and at each new school, the coach would say, 'He's the great white hope' - but I couldn't play ball. So my thing was jokes and characters and making fun of myself and being the 6-foot-9 Jewish guy. That was my way into show business.

I just started growing. And everyone said, 'You should probably play basketball.' So I said, 'All right. I'll give it a shot.'

You can play basketball - if you're lucky - for about 10 years. So, you're going to have to have something to fall back on.

It's difficult when you start to play football. My boots were much worse.

I used to play football all the time. In the U.S., people don't play football, so I had to learn basketball. Looking back, that's what I like about my life - doing new things, having a new perspective.

London is really nice, and I'm really happy here, but, of course, I've moved here to play football and not just to be in the city.

I just play football. You understand what you are getting into. They're always trying to improve it, make it better and safer and more efficient. It is what it is.

After I hurt the knee, football wasn't nearly as much fun. I was limited. But you make do with what you have. I adjusted some. I was lucky to play as long as I did, with the different kinds of injuries I got. I played with two severed hamstring muscles in my leg late in my career. I could barely run, other than to drop back to pass.

I just feel I got my inspiration, education and all from others that came before me. And I added my... I don't even know if I added anything. I played what they played, and it sounded different, I guess.

A couple of games, I played up front when Diego Costa was not there. We know to create movement - not even to get the ball, but create space for others. Now I understand football is not always with the ball at my feet.

I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar.

As a roadie for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, I learned that I should give up being a guitar player.

So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.

County cricket has helped every player who has been part of it.

It's hard for a player to plan for the future, especially in a game like football.

Consistency is most important in international level and once you have it, you become a different player.

Moving out and living on my own was a big thing, but to be in a different country with different coaches and a different mentality changed me as a person, as a player, the way I think about things and the way I see people.

As with Cesc Fabregas, some players who go and play for foreign clubs improve on a cultural level. It makes them grow on many levels; intellectually, because you have to learn a new language and adapt to another culture, and on a footballing level too.