Quotes About Transition

For over a decade, I had played every week, so to then have a season when you are not - that physical and mental high when you build up to a game and come down afterwards - was missing. It takes a while to adjust and is quite confusing.

It was a culture shock at first, moving from Michigan to Mississippi. But it ended up being the best decision I ever made.

When I moved to Mississippi, I was playing in high school, and there wasn't a lot of talent around me. I figured out that I wasn't going to be able to get to the bucket a lot anymore.

I went to college in Mississippi; I'm from Louisiana.

I grew up in Mississippi. I was there for 13 years, and then when I turned 13, I moved out to L.A.

We did it. Make no mistake: We have written history. Today there's a change of guards in Denmark.

If Ryan Giggs was plying his trade and been the player he had been here in a foreign league, he would go straight from playing to an AC Milan or Inter Milan or any top European club out of the mix.

It's sort of the mixed blessing of being on television for so long in one thing; sometimes that backfires, in that you're not able to continue on.

Every president inherits a mixed bag when he comes to office, and Obama's was hardly the worst.

I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is - this thing that happens to everyone, so I've heard.

I don't mind going from sadness to comedy in a split-second or mixing the two up.

Back in 2000, I didn't have a mobile phone.

I'm trying to assemble materials for a different mode of life.

People with children will know this: when the childcare is over, it's over on the dot. You immediately have to go into child mode; there's no down time.

The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore.

I started as a model in Holland and Chanel took me to New York when I was 19, after which I decided to stay.

I started acting when I was about 18. I was a model for a couple of years before that.

I always said, 'If it's over, it's over.' If modeling is over, it's still the best experience of my life.

I'll be working a lot more on film than modeling.

I decided to turn in my pompoms and focus on modeling.

I didn't really like modeling; it was fun but I always wanted acting.

I've done modeling since I was 18, but it didn't take off until I moved to Los Angeles. Modeling has always been something I've been really good at, and has been something that's helped pay bills.

I hated modeling. I was so scared. But as soon as I started doing jewelry, I did better as a model.

I modeled a little bit in Georgia growing up. I did catalogs and different things, but then when I came to L.A., I became a professional model. It sounds kind of crazy, but in L.A. was when I was able to start making a living from modeling.