Bob Greene Quotes

You don't catch the knuckleball, you defend against it.

Waiting patiently doesn't suit you. I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around things, and finds the secret paths no one else has thought about. [Mameha]

Most things don't stay the way they are for very long. I take nothing for granted and try to be ready for the change that's soon to come.

In boxing and politics, you cannot predict results. You should be ready to go 12 rounds. But if you win in the first round, you should be ready to be the winner quickly.

I think what we focus on is every game is a different challenge, and you have to find ways to put yourself in position to win, and you have to have a resourcefulness, and it's not always going to go according to play.

I'm used to things not coming in the packages you expect.

I feel like I can adapt to any defense.

I've played on the wing in some games and found myself in the middle for five or 10 minutes when others drift wide. It's about creating chances, scoring goals and helping the team win.

Everybody has a game plan, but the plan changes after the first punch.

But that's how life is. You never know how it's going to turn out, and you can't plan for everything. You just have to do your best dealing with things as they come and hope people forgive you when you make a mistake.

Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by the simplest of such injunctions.

Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

Those of us with water in our personalities don't pick where we'll flow to. All we can do is flow where the landscape of our lives carries us

You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup.

Adaptability is being able to adjust to any situation at any given time.

All things change. Cultivate flexibility rather than perfection.

I like to think I'm like water that adapts to its surroundings and eventually finds a way in.

Never assume. Never make plans. Keep doing the press-ups and deep knee bends: you'll need all your strength and flexibility when your life suddenly implodes. Maybe it won't — some people do lead enchanted lives — but odds are that it will. Some time.

There is nothing softer and weaker than water, and yet there is nothing better for attacking hard and strong things.

I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship.

Though I may not flow where the wind guides me, I won’t become still water.

Life doesn't care about your vision. You just gotta roll with it.

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

Be like water, my friend.

You never know what you're going to have to face, so you'd better be prepared.