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

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.

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.

Don’t just remain an accidental being.

One who has conquered every aspect of his pain except the deepest.

I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

do u ever think, when ur all alone, all tht we could be, where this can go, am i crazy, or falling in love?

There is always a well-known solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.

It takes time to really understand your body shape and it's taken me years to know what I can and can't pull off.

How do we make the world work?

I never give too much thought to the idea of universality.

Tell me that you don’t take that blade and drag it across your skin and pray for the courage to press down.