Quotes About Adaptation

Sometimes you fail with the bat, and then you have to do well with the ball. When you fail with the ball, you have to do well with your willow.

The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.

We had such a wonderful set of circumstances in Wilmington. Yes, the four of us became famous literally overnight, but we were in a small town and we always knew when people were coming down. We always knew when to behave.

I love London and Wimbledon but the problem is that I'm not very good on grass, that was the hardest in the juniors for me, but the 02 should be fine as it's on hard court.

My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me. After that, when I can't play Wimbledon, it was tough. For one month I was outside the world.

I didn't serve and volley until I got to Wimbledon in '77.

I had a Skoda, but after Wimbledon, I changed to BMW.

Just because you win the French Open it doesn't mean you can do well at Wimbledon.

I went from not being known anywhere in the world to winning junior Wimbledon and six months later playing the Australian Open. I was a victim of my own success, really.

At Wimbledon if it is slightly wet you don't even play the match. At the French Open you need to just get on with it and somehow adjust.

No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you're staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It's very simple when you look at it.

Sometimes you have to accept you can't win all the time.

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

Every great political campaign rewrites the rules; devising a new way to win is what gives campaigns a comparative advantage against their foes.

We can't win at home. We can't win on the road. As general manager, I just can't figure out where else to play.

You know the old saying: you win some, you lose some... and then there's that little-known third category.

Sometimes you win some, sometimes you lose some, sometimes you can't be at 100 percent.

When Bale first started at Tottenham, they were struggling to win whenever he played at left-back, but it is unbelievable how quickly things can change in football.

I think as you get older, you realize there's always going to be critics. Critics are going to win every time because they can change their critique based on the stats and their own personal feelings.

We just have to try to play ball. We go week-to-week trying to find ways to win games. That is what it comes down to.

When teams train now, it is about what they do with the ball and, if they lose it, how quickly they press to win it back.

If you win games, at the top, there's no pressure to change. You change when you have to change. You change when you don't win anymore.

For me, whether we win or lose, every match is giving me a lot of information about how to improve.

I truly believe you have to take things as they come, win or lose, and keep believing in how you want to do things and how you want to play.