Quotes About Transition

Everyone goes through a weirdness as a young person, especially in college, when you're trying to figure things out.

When I made the transition from player to coach, I evaluated myself and saw that I needed to improve my personality. I would fight with players - literally. I was 35, and you can't be like that; you have young players to guide. You have to transmit calm.

You can only advise young players to make the step to Liverpool.

It's time for old players like me, old fogies like me, to give it up and let the young players have a chance.

For a kid that just played for Oviedo, to then going to play for a team like Real Madrid, it felt fantastic. But being taken out of my family home and moving away alone, into the residence Madrid have for young players, it was a bit difficult. But as time passed, I got used to it.

My job as a former player is to help young players understand about the business.

With young players you never know how quickly they're going adapt.

Young players will of course always improve upon coming to England. But I came here at 27 and already had a lot of experience from earlier in my career.

The challenge for young players is always stepping into the next level in terms of how much faster the game is.

I really like coming-of-age dramas. It's probably the most intense period in anyone's life, those years before you become an adult. Dramatically, there's so much to explore there. And it's nice to be around young talent coming through.

I think initially with the ECW product it was a perfect place. Even though it was WWE's ECW, it was a perfect place for the young talent to kind of get their feet wet and figure out the lay of the land and to figure out how the WWE works and then you can transition better into Raw or SmackDown.

It's such a funny thing when you see your daughter transitioning from your baby, your little girl, to suddenly being a young woman. If you're not really looking for it, you can miss it, and Lily-Rose is on that road already, and there's nothing I can do to stop it.

I took off the makeup and stashed the crown, and now I was just another young woman out in the world. It's almost dizzying how fast the fame goes away - like a stage that turns dark at the end of a performance.

The line between angry young woman and grumpy old lady is very fine.

I never got to make that transition from little girl to young woman... and that really screws you up.

When I came back to Britain, I realized that I was no longer a very young woman. I had to meet my new consciousness, my new age, with roles that reflected it somewhat.

What I've learned about being trans in transition is just that sometimes good things don't happen when you try to rush things. Just as a young girl grows into a young woman, you know, we transition; we grow into our bodies the same way.

I guess 16, 17, 18, that whole period was a dark time for me. I guess it was a hormonal thing, going through all those changes as a young woman, learning who you are and being comfortable with yourself, and also, which goes along with that, boys. It was definitely an unhappy, 'Who am I?' period. 'Who am I gonna be?'

The things a young woman goes through between the ages of 18 and 20 are far different than what a young woman can go through between 20 and 22.

Adolescence in our culture for a young woman, for a girl, is a hard road.

I think that the path that I took was normal in the American society where young women and men are not trained as to how to make the transition from being a girl to being a woman, from being a boy to being a man. And so I think that most young people in America live by trial and error, and not by parental instruction, community guidance.

Each job I had wasn't necessarily the perfect job, but I always talk to young women about how you really have to take certain things from each job and learn from that and then move on to something you really want to do.

Young women today, as in the fifties, find themselves entering the big world and having to make choices.

I feel like the eight most at-risk years for young men or young women are the four they're in high school and the four they should be in college.