Amelie Mauresmo Quotes

I was a boy, suddenly treated like the men and expected to act like them.

Changing course is never easy.

You think that adulthood will hit and you'll suddenly be more capable. But that doesn't happen, ever, does it?

Potomac School proved to be my first big adjustment - one that helped me with a basic lesson of growing up: learning to get along in whatever world one is deposited.

I'm getting to be a real pro at coming into things midstream and trying to catch up.

You can't be 16 forever.

Change is never easy.

Change is such hard work.

There's been a lot thrust on my shoulders at a very young age.

I don't think any of us grew up into the world we were hoping for or expecting.

I think life changes every year. This is just a little more comfortable.

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.

If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.

It was hard to find that transition to adult roles.

I turned 30, and everyone told me I would feel different, and I didn't.

I've been through a lot of changes.

Definitely, life changes as it goes on a little bit, for sure.

As a child, I thought, 'Once I am a grown-up, there will be no more fear, no more worries,' and it turns out that's not true.

It's hard, transitioning from one thing to another. That's with anything you do.

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

I'll never forget when I was 12 years old. I couldn't wait until the day I was 16 and could drive a car. I thought that'd be the end of life's problems. I mean, you can drive! What is there left? And then I turned 16 and realized there were still problems.

Honestly, I felt pressure more when I was a lot younger.

You have got to get to know people, and moving down to Liverpool from the North East was a huge change for me. But, at the same time, you have just got to get on with it, and that is part and parcel of being a footballer.

It was when I came back from Leeds that things started to change. I went from being a kid to having to man up and going into a man's game.

When you get to a certain age any big change is hard to deal with.