Quotes About Transition

I made the decision to take acting seriously after high school.

What do you do if you're an executive who resigns? You declare yourself a consultant.

It's not easy for a coach to deal with a player who is in slow decline.

Since coming to the major leagues, my passion toward baseball had started to decrease.

When I was playing football it was 24 hours a day, seven days a week. So I said to myself when I stopped that I wanted to dedicate myself to things I'd never done before. I even had a list.

Do I miss the darts? No, not at all. It has been great not to get up in the morning and have to be dedicated anymore. That is the best part.

I've dedicated a lot of time to this sport, and to see my time coming to an end, it's kind of sad.

In the deep corner of my heart, I'm a Chicagoan, but it's been covered over by 20 years of living in the Bay Area.

My voice broke very late. I think that, deep down, I knew that once it broke, my self-esteem would plummet, as I'd never be head chorister again.

I always knew, deep down, that I'd love to be an author, but I don't think I really thought about trying to do it seriously until it was time to leave school and consider what I'd do next.

I was only used to 4-3-3. For me as a left-winger you have also a left midfielder and a left-back behind you. But in a 4-4-2 you are basically also the left midfielder so you have to help more in defence and I wasn't used to that.

You do not defend a world that is already lost.

When I first came to Arsenal, I didn't know how to defend.

When I was a kid, I was a striker. Then, I started to be a winger and defender sometimes.

I started out as a defender. I played as a full-back, and then I moved into the centre. I played defence right the way through until the Under-18s. Honestly!

Eventually, I think I'll probably end up at centre-half. By the time I get to 28 or 29, I imagine I'll be a defender.

I wasn't a defender and I didn't think of myself as one.

I played central defender for the most part when I started playing football, either central defence or right-back.

I actually was a defense attorney first.

Just because it's a break doesn't mean it has to be fast all the time. It can be a secondary break, but you've got to allow the defense to break down.

Firstly, I am somebody who plays in a defensive role, and we need to start with that, but then I need to bring the ball forward and help the attack.

I got into medicine at university, then deferred a year to see. Then I started acting and just never went back to university.

I could've kept playing, but football didn't define me.

I don't see myself as someone who's ever going to be defined by one moment. It's on to the next.