Quotes About Adaptation

You do see very few English players going abroad and those that do are largely good players otherwise they wouldn't have gone, but I feel a lot of their downfall is in the language. On the pitch you can learn the different basics of 'left,' 'right' and 'behind you' but off the pitch you want to have that influence around the team.

You have to create the show anew, and find it anew, on a nightly basis.

I still have my back to the basket because there's going to be times where I'm going to really have to score down low, but I'm really working on my face-up game because in the league, there's more space, and there's not double-teams and triple-teams coming at you like how it was in college.

It took me a while to realize that basketball wasn't football.

Balling is balling; it is all just basketball for me and I'm used to playing both games, so it really does not matter if it is international style, American style; it does not matter at all for me.

I played high school basketball at six feet, then I went to 5-11 in my 50's, and then, bang, I went down to 5-9.

More traditional guitar, bass, drums - it's not something completely natural to me. It's, in a way, exotic.

As I said, when we needed to move over to rock'n'roll, Sam and Vernon couldn't quite make the shift. So that's when Larry took over on drums, and we needed a bass player.

Being a bass player in a band without a drummer for seven, eight years has been kind of weird.

This game's a lot easier early on in your career because people haven't seen you play. Things got a lot harder when people saw what I did with the ball and began to think about how to bat against me.

I think that's one of the things you start learning from being hot and playing every day at the beginning, you know. The league, they made their adjustments and their change to you, the way they pitch you, the way they attack you, and just learning and learning from that and making the adjustments the very next at bat or the very next pitch.

It depends upon the make-up of the team where I'm going to bat.

No matter where I bat I try to adapt to the situation.

Using the bathroom in space is hard, and you've got to be very - what was the word? - very kind to one another.

My bats were brilliant. The shape of them changed, and towards the end of my career, they got a little bit bigger.

You have to always work on your batting as you are never perfect. I am working on my batting every day and trying to perfect a few shots that will help me score all around the world.

There's a difference between batting at number four position and batting in the lower order.

Cities are where the climate battle will be won or lost.

I was about 15 years old when I moved to the Bay area.

One of the basic lessons of history is that things can be different.

Obviously international football is going to be different, I understand that.

Why am I the way I am? Well, I used to be different.

I thought everything would be different in America. It wasn't.

With each of my films, I want to look/be different from the real me and want my performance to be different from the last one.