Concentrate on defense because the offense will come.

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.

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

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.

Sadly, my socks are like snowflakes, no two are exactly alike.

You can't always rely on taking the pain. You need to learn to avoid it.

For those of us who are told our families are wrong, we can question more strongly what we believe is right.

Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.

The mind wants to forget because it weighs so much on the heart and soul. I am tired of crying and feeling so helpless. I want to breathe again -just for a little while.

Failing to remember is the primary reason for most performers' poor practising habits.

If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven?

I always see my wife as the clever one, as the wise one in the family.

The lotus' stem is as long as the depth of water, So men's height is just as great as their inner strength.

I belong nowhere and to no one.