Quotes About Transition

Days before Barcelona called me, I was about to leave to coach in Egypt.

At the beginning of every summer it is said that I'll move to Barcelona.

In England, you pass from A to B, and it goes to B, but in Barcelona, you have to go to D and then to F, and it really works your brain.

It's true, when I was at Barcelona I played as a winger.

I no longer run barefoot.

So I played alto for quite a while until I saved up the money for the baritone.

I know too well how much I am going to miss football after my career for me to put up my own barriers.

It might look like it's easy, but no one really knows how hard it is. Especially when you go from a college bars routine that has four skills to elite with 10-12 or maybe even more. It's a big jump.

I played baseball growing up, second base, and then when I got to high school,it just didn't exist there.

I did make a choice when I got away from baseball to be there to get my kids off to college.

Up until the time I was 14 years old, I was sure that I was going to be a big-league baseball player. But that dream came to a rude awakening when I got cut from my high school baseball team.

I'm getting the basics with the AFL, but the NFL is a different animal.

Coming out of college, you never really know how good you are, you've never played for money, you've put all your eggs in one basket and your whole life revolves around it. For a while, I didn't think I was going to be good enough.

Basketball can only go for so long.

Then I went to UCLA - so of course I became a huge Bruin basketball fan... and later came to football.

It took me a while to realize that basketball wasn't football.

I knew I wasn't going to play professional basketball.

I played high school basketball at six feet, then I went to 5-11 in my 50's, and then, bang, I went down to 5-9.

I try to envision what life is after basketball, but I just see myself working out and just being a basketball player still.

As I said, when we needed to move over to rock'n'roll, Sam and Vernon couldn't quite make the shift. So that's when Larry took over on drums, and we needed a bass player.

I was about 15 years old when I moved to the Bay area.

Obviously international football is going to be different, I understand that.

Why am I the way I am? Well, I used to be different.

I thought everything would be different in America. It wasn't.