Quotes About Transition

After high school, I earned a scholarship to play Division I soccer at a small school in North Carolina, but I didn't get much playing time, which forced me to determine who I was beyond the field, something I had previously never had to do.

I played soccer. I was really known as an athlete. It was a shock to people that I was doing music. They thought it was really odd.

I wanted to be a soccer player.

I really didn't want to play basketball for the longest time, but I just wouldn't stop growing. But I always wanted to be a professional soccer player.

I was in my junior year of high school and I had been playing soccer and basketball almost my entire life, and I wanted a change of pace. I wanted to do something more, something different. That's when I found an MMA gym about 45 minutes from my house and fell in love with the idea of becoming a professional fighter.

What am I going to do if I stop fighting? Study? Soccer?

I wanted to be a huge soccer player. I wanted to be the best in soccer when I grew up. But my life changed. Out of nowhere, I decided to be a fighter.

I think it will be good to be in Columbus and get pushed there and then go overseas. If there is a loan, it will be good to get comfortable and get games and get used to the pace of European soccer.

I was a soccer player. Basketball wasn't my thing.

I started playing soccer first and then basketball. I had a leg injury when I was young and my mom said, 'come on, try to choose a different sport.'

Maradona doesn't play soccer anymore, he coaches it. He needs to remember that.

I played soccer when I was younger so I thought I was going to be a soccer player for a long time. But then when I started modelling I finished up with soccer because it was too much.

I absolutely loved my time at Uconn. It was my first time really being away from home, having to make decisions for myself, make decisions for what's best for my soccer, for my school, nutrition.

The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss.

Political and social change is always a stagger-step process.

It would be nice to be in one place for a while and have a social life again and get a job. But I'm not qualified to do anything. That's the problem.

Having that college experience and a social life that didn't revolve around Hollywood was absolutely crucial.

I am neither dejected nor depressed because every one has a bad phase in one's life. I realized it the hard way because the momentum of my social life too slowed down.

One of the greatest challenges companies face in adjusting to the impact of social media, is knowing where to start.

It may be coincidence that the decline of newspapers has corresponded with the rise of social media. Or maybe not.

I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.

I worked as a clerical assistant at the Department of Health and Social Security for about three months before I went to drama school.

A lot of populists after populism died just became socialists. At the beginning of the 20th century, socialism looked like it was going to take off. It didn't, of course, but a lot of people thought it was going to.

Especially for my father it was a great change. He used to be a socialist and even a member of the socialist party. But then he became an orthodox Jew.