Quotes About Transition

I was quite a clever child, I don't know what happened later on.

It's always an adjustment period when you are with a new team. Things don't necessarily click how you want them to.

It doesn't always click for a new player in a new team: you don't always go in and hit the ground running and score all the time.

Something clicked, and I was like, 'I gotta be prepared. This could end at any time.' That was my second year in the league. From that point on I started doing broadcasting and things like that in an attempt to find my passion - something I could do after football.

I remember being 32 years old and feeling great, better than ever physically. Then at 33, I tore my shoulder and was out for eight months, and it was like I fell off a cliff. I was never the same.

Today's business climate is not for me.

I won't cling to the past.

There is probably no such thing as a good divorce, but clinging to an old idea of how relationships are unraveled can make a bad thing even worse.

Amy Carter, Chelsea Clinton and the Obama girls all had to change schools.

In any case, you can't turn back the clock.

You might want to be able to close a chapter of your life, but I don't believe that you ever do completely.

I won't say I've closed the door on acting.

I'm afraid the 'Doctor Who' door is probably closed because of me being in 'Torchwood.'

The movie has called it closed. I'm not saying I won't ever listen to 'Les Miserables' again. But it closed the door for me. It's gone its own way.

I think most of us who live into our 50s have had a few experiences with death. You know, we see people we know start to die. We realize it's getting closer and closer for us.

On your first film, you think these are going to be your closest friends for the rest of your life. You form a bond, but then you go back to the rest of your life.

I think I was always a class clown growing up and a funny kid. I never really knew how to channel that until I got into high school.

Clubs will lose great players, and great players will come in.

If you're playing the clubs, you're either on your way up or your way down.

I feel very settled. I'm not running in and out of clubs at 5 A.M. anymore.

I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.

There was a time I'd sing and dance at night clubs, but now I don't do that.

I've seen 18 managers go at the clubs I've been playing for. It's a part of football, isn't it?

It's tough to leave one of the greatest clubs in the world.