Quotes About Transition

I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt.

Last year we had so many people coming in and out they didn't bother to sew their names on the backs of the uniforms. They just put them there with Velcro.

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

One of the most difficult times in my life was when I escaped from Romania in November of 1989.

After you've done it for so many years, you have to find a new direction. You have to find something in your soul that's going to push you towards - to find your inspiration.

Difficulties are opportunities to better things; they are stepping-stones to greater experience...When one door closes, another always opens; as a natural law it has to, to balance.

I went through baseball as a player to be named later.

They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again.

I could have played football for two or three more years. All I needed was a leg transplant.

And here's Moses Kiptanui - the 19 year old Kenyan, who turned 20 a few weeks ago.

I have been a fan all my life, but now I have been out of football for over 10 years, and out of baseball for a little over six years and I don't go to games.

It's basically the same, just darker. (on racing Saturday nights as opposed to Sunday afternoons, 1991

The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.

Life is one big transition.

We have a lot of players in their first year. Some of them are also in their last year.

And once you cross over into that world, no matter how strong you are, you have to pay the price.

I can't recall too much about pitching, but I do remember that I was anxious to get it over with. I just wanted to get that first game over with and go from there.

As football players you have all the experience on the field. You don't have the experience off the field.

Although it was a great accomplishment to win a gold medal, as soon as they put it on you, that's it; your career is over.

I didn't want to stay until I had used up all the enjoyment because that's too long to stay anywhere.

One day you are drinking the wine, and they next day you are picking the grapes.

Changing from a player to a coach, I felt like a mosquito in a nudist colony. I didn't know where to begin.

As the saying goes, Bruce Jenner is a millionaire, and Mark Spitz is a dentist. It's the wrong sport.

When you retire you want to get as far away as possible from the game for a couple of years.