Vlade Divac Quotes

The first time I lived in L.A. I was too young. I really wanted to be back home in Vancouver.

It's actually very hard when you're settled in one place to completely uproot yourself and go.

I think that a lot of people I'm close to feel that they went through a period of real difficulty when they moved away from home... You do have to reinvent yourself, and people have to struggle with that. It was really a struggle for me.

I moved out to L.A. from New York... and I remember feeling, kind of like anyone does when they first move, so very lonely and isolated.

I knew I needed to move away when I was 15, but when I got to Norwich, I spent nights crying myself to sleep with homesickness. For any young kid moving away from home, that is the biggest thing you have to deal with.

You ever try to leave New York? I did once. I lasted about a year.

I just wanted to move out of Portland to do something.

I never used to get homesick when I first moved to L.A.

My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.

As much as I didn't want to change, lifestyles do change.

I've been fortunate in that I've been forced to move from zone to zone.

I started working with Bob in 1965. We did go through a lot of changes from 65 to 74, a lot of changes. By 1974, everything had straightened itself out.

I've been through a lot of changes.

I've been no stranger to change.

I was from somewhere else. Then all of a sudden I was here, in New York. With one suitcase.

You always need a certain amount of time to fully adjust; it was no different when I moved to the Bundesliga.

It was a village where I come from, obviously a lot smaller than London, so the support was unreal and close by. To come away to a new challenge, a new level, knowing that I was going to have to step up massively - not having those people around me was a test.

It was really tough being 14 and moving away from home.

I feel like, of course, Portland didn't want me to leave, but I feel like at the end of the day it's good to have a fresh start.

I moved from home in Scotland to home in WWE, and that was the first time being out on my own in my life.

Anytime you leave something you've done and where you've been for nearly a decade, it's going to be different.

I remember moving to California and feeling so strange because I'd always seen myself moving to New York.

When I was in L.A., I thought I would never leave.

I'm a Jersey girl, but I went to college in L.A. I can connect with the feeling of wanting to come home.

Change, even if unwelcome, forces us to reevaluate what our best options are. Those times of transitions are great opportunities to look for recurring patterns in your life and make adjustments to build on the good and reduce the bad.