Quotes About Transition

Certainly coming to America has been extraordinary.

Any natural, normal human being, when faced with any kind of loss, will go from shock all the way through acceptance.

I feel like I have done a lot at United, I still have developed as a player and grown into myself, seen a lot of faces come and go.

For me, there's life before and after facial hair, so that's how I look at everything.

When you go to a new country, you don't have the same facilities as you had in the one before. You adapt very quickly to the circumstances.

There's one massive problem with coming from writing novels into screenplays that I've discovered over the years, which is that you've got too much facility on the page.

I keep returning to the central question facing over-50 women as we move into our Second Adulthood. What are our goals for this stage in our lives?

I think it's always going to be strange for me facing the Bulls.

It was difficult to step away. I've always been an athlete. And to give that up was extremely daunting. The looming factor of brain damage, to me, was too strong.

By the time I was leaving school, there were no factories. There was no industry.

Most famous stage actors tactfully fade away.

When I started out I was a failed actor.

I got real bored in '96. Wasn't nobody to fight. Nothing to look forward to. That's when I started playing basketball again. Had I not started playing basketball, my boxing career would have failed. But I went from a sport where nobody could touch me to another where I couldn't touch nobody.

Failure doesn't exist. It's only a change of direction.

I think part of being an adult is leaving the fairytale behind.

It's a little weird thinking I'm going to be an Atlanta Falcon - just saying that.

Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.

Everything I've done I've just fallen into.

I'm sad about my theatre career, but I've also fallen a bit in love with TV!

I always likened retirement to falling off a cliff, and then you have to kind of brush yourself off.

Moving to Trinidad was a great experiment. I never knew what it would do to my work or even if it would be accepted by people and not be seen as me just falling off the edge of the earth.

In the late '70s, I was falling into the middle lane. I was way too country to be rock, and way too rock to be a country act.

I'm personally in a different stage of my career than I was at the beginning. I was young and tried to run a lot and fight for things. Now it falls naturally. That's something you get with experience.

Fame changes a lot of things, but it can't change a lightbulb.