Barry Trotz Quotes

You have to keep evolving.

When it comes to the moves themselves, after I created a style, a lot of guys started doing the same moves I was. I had to switch up my whole offense. Then, when it happened again, I had to switch it up again. It was a hard thing to do, but it helps me grow and helps me not become stale.

No matter how successful you are, change is always good.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

If you're going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously.

Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

Theories cannot claim to be indestructible. They are only the plough which the ploughman uses to draw his furrow and which he has every right to discard for another one, of improved design, after the harvest.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

I don't want to limit myself as a writer. Tastes change, and I want to keep my eye on the future.

We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.

You need to keep on doing things you have never done before in your career. You have to have a go.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress

Don't be content with things as they are.

I know that without change there would be no progress, but I am not going to mistake mere change for progress.

I want tension in my business. Tension creates change. Change is necessary to evolve and prosper. I am never satisfied.

You make a record like 'Jump,' people are stuck in that world. They want you to keep making records like 'Jump.' People don't understand that you got to move on; you got to do something else. You have to evolve and go to something else. And most of the time, when it's time for you to move, other people are not prepared for that move.

Longevity in this business is about being able to reinvent yourself or invent the future.

It's my dream career to do as many different things as possible and for as long as possible, to stretch myself in as many different directions as I can.

I think what's really important is to challenge yourself. You can very easily fall into the rut of, 'We know it works! We'll use that old chestnut.'

As far as it growing, I believe it is always necessary to evolve. I am not one to rest on my laurels.

With experience, you improve. I'm a better player now, more complete than I was when I was player of the year.

Progress often masquerades as trouble.

Adjusting and evolving as a player and not being stuck in a certain way, I'm happy for those things.