A lot of rookies hit the wall after 50 or 60 games.

You can't really get into regular football after you watch Australian rules football because it's just two different ends of the totem pole.

In Australian culture, people are just more laid back, people aren't as serious, they just take their time with things. It's just like, whatever, if I don't get it done I don't get it done.

I'm not going to put my energy into dunking every time I get the ball. That's stupid.

Winning the Rookie of the Year would be nice but making the playoffs would be even nicer for me.

I just want to try to ignore the scrutiny and all the distractions and just play hard basketball and let the best come... Improving game by game and trying to improve my game is what I want to do.

I've had two unlucky injuries that are the equivalent of walking under 1,000 ladders and seeing 1,000 black cats.

What I would say is I've only had one injury in my NBA career, that was probably was because my core wasn't strong enough, when I had a stress fracture in my back.

The thing with NBA teams, a lot of times they just want to get you back on the floor to play, so as a player you've got to be very, very smart.

These days, to be seven years in one spot in any pro sport is a pretty long tenure.

The American attitude is 'We're the best'. That's why the NBA guys who come from other countries, the Europeans, all sort of stick together away from the game.

Truths are dangerous, " he said."Then why are you writing them in a book?""To catch them between the pages, " said Teddy, "and trap them before they disappear.

The paradigm for our relationships is formed from our earliest experiences and is actually hardwired into our neurological and emotional network.

Love others, not because they deserve your love, but because the universe deserves peace.

When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the edges of your field or pick the fallen fruit. Leave these for the poor and the stranger.

~ Not every poem is meant for oral stimulation, some are better devoured mentally.

The seventh gift is Talent. May you discover your own special abilities and contribute them toward a better world.

Winter teetered on the verge of succumbing to the returning sun, but today the breeze still preferred the touch of snowflakes

My congratulations on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the October Revolution.

Poems come from incomplete knowledge.

Love is its own reward.