Quotes About Transition

As a professional athlete, the small print says there could be a trade at some point in your career. Sometimes expected, sometimes not. You have to be able to handle that.

I was lucky, and once I moved to L.A., I didn't have to get another job besides acting. But I wouldn't trade my previous jobs for anything.

I spent 20 years working for the trade union movement before becoming a Labour MP. I'm proud to have done both jobs.

Not that I shouldn't have been traded - everyone gets traded at some point. But the way that it went down wasn't justifiable.

When I got traded to the California Angels, I really wasn't that excited about going to the Angels because it meant changing leagues and also a whole new set of teammates. But shortly after I got there I realized that it was one of the best things that ever happened to me.

My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe.

Getting traded to Edmonton was fine with me at the time. At the end of the day, though, you just try to do what's best for you and your family.

I've been traded before.

In the beginning, when I signed with Miami, they said they were never gonna trade me, and then, after first year, boom, they traded me to Toronto.

You get traded. It happens. It's part of the business.

Obviously, getting traded halfway through the year is always tough. New faces, new teammates, guys you played against but don't know on a personal level.

When I found out that I'd been traded to Brooklyn - it was pretty much the best feeling in the world.

I had a mother that told me what to do all my life, and I traded that in for a wife. We got married two years out of high school which is not what you tell your kids to do, right?

Whenever you get traded out and you are playing for a winning team, it's always good.

I came into the league traded. So I'm not the only person that goes through trade rumors each year.

Most of the time, before you get traded, there are rumblings. I wasn't totally surprised that I was going to get traded - I anticipated it happening. And I wasn't surprised that I got traded to the Knicks, either.

Everybody - come on - everybody is going to get traded at some point.

When I first came to Atlanta, I did not want to come here; I got traded here.

If I get traded, I get traded. It's a part of the business.

Everyone knows my career was catapulted to another level when I got traded to the Boston Celtics.

I mean, if you're going to get traded, you're always looking for a good team to play with.

I had told my wife that I was thinking of retiring at the end of the year. I was thinking I didn't want to do it anymore, but then I was traded to the Dodgers.

Some people want to stay with one team but they get traded.

You'll be on one team this minute, then the next day you get traded. So, I mean, I knew how the business works... It happened to me.