Amari Cooper Quotes

You can't just walk into Old Trafford, and you're there. There's so much to get used to.

Change is something that is expected and, therefore, not resisted.

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.

Obviously international football is going to be different, I understand that.

I mean, it took me a long while to realize that I wasn't gonna play football on a regular basis anymore. I still play once in a while, but that took me a long while to adjust.

If you are not performing consistently at a club like Arsenal, then there are other players ready to take the opportunity - which I learned the tough way.

I took over from Sir Alex, and it was always going to take time, whoever was in charge.

I'm a player coming into Manchester United, I've got to adapt like every other, no matter how old I am.

Football, like life, is about change.

Sometimes you're forced into change.

Before leaving, I was seen as a good player, perhaps as a very good player, but as one of the many players that Bayern had. But if you play as a Real footballer, you get even more attention. Maybe that part from the fans I do not like so much.

You get a new coach; you do things a little differently.

You always need time to adapt to a new manager. But in football if you don't get a result, you are under pressure.

Football brings changes and different direction in your life. It's about how you adapt to it and move on.

Going to Charlotte and being there two years, I missed L.A., but it was good for me.

I know what a full season is like in the big leagues. It's not going to be a surprise anymore.

I'm not a good butcher but I've had to learn to carve the joint. People expect a new look.

Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.

What do you plan to do in the land of the sleepers? You have been floating in a sea of solitude, and the sea has borne you up. At long last, are you ready for dry land? Are you ready to drag yourself ashore?

All I can tell everybody is, I'm the same guy, just on a different team.

​​​​​​You're going to feel uncomfortable in your new world for a bit. It always does feel strange to be knocked out of your comfort zone.

When we make a change, it's so easy to interpret our unsettledness as unhappiness, and our unhappiness as a result of having made the wrong decision. Our mental and emotional states fluctuate madly when we make big changes in our lives, and some days we could tight-rope across Manhattan, and other days we are too weary to clean our teeth. This is normal. This is natural. This is change.

My world was changing, and I was not ready for it.

The question is not whether we are able to change but whether we are changing fast enough.

l have no fear of change as such and, on the other hand, no liking for it merely for its own sake.