Quotes About Transition

In 2012, when I left MTV, irregular income started.

I did GCSE's and A-levels. I did my finals after the Lions tour in 2009 to get my law degree. So I've always had an eye on life beyond playing, irrelevant of the period in my career.

Nobody is irreplaceable; guys get moved every single year. For us, we just have to be prepared for any situation.

Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.

When I was growing up and until I got married, I had some times when I felt a bit lonely and a little bit isolated - even after I got married.

I moved out to L.A. from New York... and I remember feeling, kind of like anyone does when they first move, so very lonely and isolated.

The nation of Israel has had enough one-time leaders.

In the same way that I had to follow an Italian manager here, I can imagine that it was not easy for an Italian manager to follow me at Porto.

One week after moving to Rome, I started writing in my diary in Italian.

I used to speak Italian.

Italy has changed. But Rome is Rome.

It was tough moving to Italy so young. You don't have much experience of life, you are leaving your family and everything behind to go to another country and another culture.

In Italy, where I live now, I have put some distance between myself and the world that has formed me.

Before Italy, I had a happy life.

A lot of people criticised me when I opted to leave Italy for Russia. However, I'm convinced that I made the right decision to leave Inter.

It's hard to imagine going back to Italy, despite my experience in Serie A being extraordinary.

When I do retire, I am going to go back to Italy.

To have a chance at a big club, if it goes well and the club is happy and I am happy, then I can definitely see a longer-term future in Italy.

Like everybody coming from Europe, I didn't believe it at first, but you really need time to adjust. I thought it was going to be like going from Croatia to Italy. But you really need the time just to understand things here.

Initially when I moved over to Italy it was really easy because I was living my dream. Everything was brand new. Then I began to get into the routine: training, school, home, home, school, training. That's all I did for 18 months. I had 20 euros to live on a week and I couldn't do anything else, because you can't with that amount of money.

In Italy, managers don't know how long they're going to be in charge for and there's always rumors about someone taking over.

People were used to see me in a 3-5-2 because in Fiorentina that was also where I played. But the hard thing was to adapt to that when I arrived in Italy.

It's like after uni when you go to do a master's. Italy is like that for defenders.

Even if it does not become cashless economy, it will become a less cash economy, and I think that itself is going to be a good and big achievement, and I think we are, as a country, gone through many of large changes, and ICICI has been a leader in many of them.