Quotes About Transition

You know, I was going to be a footballer at one stage, but... nah.

When I left Liverpool, I knew had to leave. It was a big step but it was something I had to do. A lot of people asked if it was hard, it wasn't hard. It was something I needed to do to improve and get better as a footballer.

There's a big difference between being a footballer and being a coach.

You can play all the games you want as a professional footballer, but when you go into coaching it's just totally different.

If there is something I would go back and change it would have been to have lined up some other interest outside to go into after football. That's one bit of advice I give to young professional footballers, to set that up.

I started my career in an era when footballers were different. There was a different culture.

What we have done dramatically in California is lead the entire nation. For example, we have created more jobs in clean energy in California than there are coal-mining jobs in all of America.

Change before you're forced to change.

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

I grew up moving around. I went to seven different schools, so I know what it's like to be that new girl and have to not only know who you are but also take that into foreign circumstances and know how to respond.

I imagine I will be less involved in film and be focused more on family and foreign affairs.

I was only 19 when I came to Hoffenheim. Everything was new to me - a strange country, a foreign language. That was not easy at the beginning. Europe was a big adventure to me, and of course I had my doubts.

I never expected to adapt so quickly, but if you are a foreigner it's up to you to adapt to English football because you can't change it. I think I've achieved something in the way I adapted.

You can't do something forever.

Accept loss forever.

I don't see myself being an actress forever.

In football, nothing lasts forever.

You never know what's going to happen and I know that fighting is not forever. So post-fighting I definitely want to have a career, and I think a master's degree will help much more than a bachelor's degree.

I'm addicted to making music, but I don't want to do it forever. I just want a farm. Farms make you happy.

I forever felt that I've fallen right between the crack of way too young for the first generation of classic rock 'n' roll and too old to be brand-new. It's hard.

You can't play forever.

You can't be 16 forever.

Each kind of generation of bands forgets how they got here. Waylon Jennings came out and they're like, 'That's not Patsy Cline.' And everyone panicked, like, 'I don't know what happened to country music, but this isn't it.'

Football forgets everything very quick.