Ben Zobrist Quotes

Because we moved so much, I was always having to adapt and work out the lay of the land. So I felt envious of those who did not have to try.

We moved from place to place, and it was hard to adjust to different schools. But we made it.

Every other year, I was the new boy. I found that the only way to survive was to embrace it, make a little fortress on the outside and to pretend to blend in but not to invest too much because you'll be somewhere else next year.

Relative to most people I know, I am comfortable just about anywhere. I went to 20 schools before the 8th grade because my father couldn't hold a job. We moved every six months. I had to adjust.

There has been a lot of movement in my family, but in a way, it has been great. It has made me adaptable. I can plonk myself anywhere.

When you're picking up and moving, it does create... well, I can sleep anywhere, which is really useful, it turns out, on movie sets. But what it really does is teach you how to adapt and change and fit into a new group or school, and that really is a lot like turning up to a new movie project and finding your place.

We moved a lot. I went to nine schools in four states before I was 14. It gave me tough skin, exposed me to lots of different kinds of people and made me somewhat adaptable.

Life will force you to make changes you never wanted to make.

Change is rarely comfortable.

I think it is just a function of the fact that I moved around so much as a child that I learnt early on to make every place my home.

When you're in a situation that is foreign to you, you just have to pull yourself together and adapt.

There is nothing permanent except change.

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

I moved around 13 different times before I was in fifth grade, not having money, not having a lot of friends.

We've moved so much, and my life has been so inconsistent.

These are the instructions you are getting today. It is only fair to tell you, however, that they may be changed tomorrow. And ten days later they may be changed back to the instructions you are getting now.

In the United States a man builds a house to spend his latter years in it and he sells it before the roof is on. He plants a garden and lets [rents] it just as the trees are coming into bearing. He brings a field into tillage and leaves other men to gather the crops. He embraces a profession and gives it up. He settles in a place which he soon afterward leaves to carry his changeable longings elsewhere. If his private affairs leave him any leisure he instantly plunges into the vortex of politics and if at the end of a year of unremitting labour he finds he has a few days' vacation, his eager curiosity whirls him over the vast extent of the United States, and he will travel fifteen hundred miles in a few days to shake off his happiness.

Without disruptions in life, where would we be?

It's very easy to think that the way things are is the way things will stay, and life just isn't like that.

I've been no stranger to change.

I've grown accustomed to hotels and drastic climate change.

When you go to a new country, you don't have the same facilities as you had in the one before. You adapt very quickly to the circumstances.

I literally have never lived anywhere longer than two years in my life. I never just stuck anywhere.

You don't ever really wanna be let go from a job, but like anything that happens in life, you gotta make the best of your situation.

Change is the only constant in this unsteady world.