I guess if you're a normal person and all of a sudden you're getting $10 million a year, it can go to your head.

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.

Some people spend the best part of their lives living the dreams of others

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

If it were a fact, it wouldn't be called intelligence.

Accept life on life's terms and just let things go.

Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.

I deserve all the love you can spare me. And I want a lot more than I deserve.

My top three were Jim Brown, Wilt Chamberlain and Bo Jackson.

If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.

Scientists say they have developed a car that can run on water. The only catch is, the water has to come from the Gulf of Mexico.

You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.