Quotes About Transition

I've always had this term 'mad season' in my head.

Rejecting Madrid? It's true that during the process, I decided to stay on the fringes. It was a time when I needed to think things through.

I left for Madrid at 20 years old and I didn't really know how it would go.

Tell everyone loud and clear, I have as much enthusiasm for leaving Madrid as I do for dying.

I worked at magazines for over 10 years before I even thought of writing a book.

We may have to have a geo-political regrouping or major geo-political changes.

As my athletic career was coming to an end in 2007, I asked myself, do I want to work for somebody, or go out and make a difference?

I didn't associate playing tennis with making a living until I was maybe 18 or 19.

I moved to L.A. when I was 17 and started making movies six months later.

I feel so much more comfortable that I've ever been. I've felt male as far back as I can remember.

How you manage change can make all the difference.

I wasn't ready to manage straight away. You have a few players who stopped and managed a first team straight away and were successful, and then there are the other ones who take different pathways. And I think what was important for me was to understand what I really wanted to do.

I would have gone to Loughborough to study business management and was looking forward to that very much.

When I was a player, I was always interested in management.

When players go into management, they might think they will bring their ideas forward, but when they get into it, it's difficult to do that.

I believe I have a lot to offer when I finish football as well. I always said I didn't want to become a manager, but I changed that view.

Even if me and my manager Willi Weber would find it hard to leave behind our friends at BMW, there's a chance it could happen.

It's not easy when you have a new manager because you have to try and adapt yourself to him, the team, training sessions, and the game.

I had a job lined up as an assistant brand manager at Playtex, at age 23, all lined up. But my father had an offer to be acquired by DDB in 1978. He said, 'I'd really like you to come into the business for a year.'

When you have a new manager, and everything is new, it gives every team a lift.

A lot's been said about me playing for three different managers.

Many managers bring players they have previously worked with into a new club - but that doesn't always mean they will continue to enjoy success together.

New managers have to come from somewhere, everyone has to be a learner at some point.

I knew nothing about managing when I started.