Quotes About Transition

I don't want to talk about genies in bottles anymore.

I had always dreamed of starting off in pop radio and crossing into country. I used to sing country; that was my genre when I was a kid.

I came late to the genre of folk music.

The first half of my TV career, I didn't do any genre at all.

I love my genre films, but I think when I get older, the way I tell it will be very different to how I told it when I was in my mid-twenties, which is how old I was when I made the first 'Saw.'

I'd like to extend my career a little bit into different genres.

I have genuine empathy for the fact that if you're a professional footballer, you've often started at three years old, you've been found, you've been scouted, you play, you play, you play, you make millions, you live this incredible life. And then you reach 35, and suddenly you have to stop doing it, and you haven't been taught anything else.

I think I've developed a sort of ADD for geography now. When I've been in a country for too long, I'm like, 'I think it's time to leave.' I don't know what that's going to do to me in later life.

I could not leave Georgia fast enough.

After the reunification, there was a certain sense of foreignness because daily life in the former East German states was completely turned inside out - everything from the shops to the bureaucracy to the working world.

I never played any games like this in Germany, not when you have to fight for 90 minutes. But if I want to be successful in England, I have to get used to it.

Leaving home early is always complicated. But when I arrived in Germany, I encountered an incredible structure built by the company that takes care of my career. They did not leave me wanting for anything. The most complicated thing was really the language. Otherwise, everything was taken care of.

I could stay in Germany and start my coaching career there. I did not want to.

Coming to Germany is not easy. People might think it's easy because I'm doing so well, but it's not at all.

It was hard to leave my boyhood club Arsenal, it's still my dream to play for Arsenal, but I know I have to put that on hold and go and play abroad to get some experience in Germany.

I used to say that I got to Germany as a boy but I left as a man.

As soon as I knew I was leaving Chelsea, our first thought was to return to Germany.

To be honest, my time at Dortmund wasn't a big success. I didn't settle well at the club and eventually moved on to Sevilla. But I am forever grateful about it because it gave me the opportunity to work with Jurgen Klopp. If I didn't go to Germany, I would never have had a chance to work with him.

I'm sure I acted differently after I got married, I know I did. But... people get married and things change. It doesn't mean that the band has to break up.

I was a boy, so I decided to get married and then I will be a man.

Everything that gets born dies.

When you think you're on top of your game, you've got to change it, and keep evolving and keep getting better.

I was a good shooter in college, but it's a different level here in the NBA and I'm working on getting better.

One thing I didn't think upon getting married: that my style would - or could - change.