Quotes About Transition

Once I stopped playing I didn't have the urge or drive to play again.

I used to love going out and celebrating with the lads. But we can do that in the hotel and I don't miss it. I don't feel that urge any more. Once you make the transition to not doing it then you don't miss it.

I think that with West Ham, it was more complicated for me. It happened naturally; there was urgency to leave West Ham.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

My phone was not ringing very much at the time after USC, and that was a very humbling experience after being let go there and to go through that process. You start calling a lot of people that don't call you back all of a sudden, and you realize things about people.

Attending USC has been such a great experience for me and has really helped prepare me for my next step in life.

You just gotta use the sunset as a reset button and start over in the morning with every chance you get to open your eyes.

My mom speaks English - she moved to England in the '70s, so she's fluent in English. We use to speak in Spanish when I was a kid all the time, me and my mom. But when I went to boarding school, I kind of lost it a little bit.

The future ain't what it used to be.

The biggest lesson that I've learnt is that things can change so quickly, never get used to one thing because everything can flip on it's head.

I used to have a sort of spiky haircut and it just feels better to have short hair again.

I like to say now that the reason I'm conservative is because I used to be a liberal, and I learned a lot.

I used to tell the players that professional football is a part-time profession. I used to tell them it gets you ready for your life's work.

With time, everything changes. I know I'm not the same person who I used to be. I totally get that.

I used to be a cool chick but I'm not anymore.

I used to be a Democrat, now I'm basically a Republican.

Fall Out Boy used to be my favorite rock band.

I used to think that divorce meant failure, but now I see it more as a step along the path of self-realization and growth.

There will come a day when the phone doesn't ring as much as it used to.

During my days as a soccer player, my teammates used to call me 'Touch' because I have a touch of blonde hair on my forehead which is a birth mark. But now swimming is my favourite sport.

Nothing is as sad as seeing a person who used to have power have none.

On the clay, I am used to sliding so much and I move really well, but I can't slide on the hard courts.

I used to skate around the rink with my mom, and we used to race each other until I started getting way better. Then she hung up her skates and resorted to playing my music at the rink.

In high school, I always had boyfriends - it wasn't healthy! I was so used to having someone around that when I was finally on my own, it felt scary.