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

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.

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.

Despite the best efforts of critics and the hopes of authors, our tastes in books are probably as inherent & unbudgeable as those in food.

The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It's not so easily tamed or subdued.

Fighting is life... Are you a person who gives up or are you a person who's going to fight?

You can be strapped to the most stable chair and still feel the world give way beneath you.

I will follow Osama bin Laden to the gates of hell.

The consequence of a world full of nuclear powers to me is so incomprehensible in terms of the dangers that that implies.

A miracle no longer seems to me a manifestation of extraordinary power, but an extraordinary manifestation of ordinary power. God is always showing himself.

I want to be reborn as a tree; that way I can plant my roots down, never move and can never be separated from the ones I love.

Trade on the Internet is becoming very widespread. The problem is our laws have not caught up with electronic commerce.

If God exists then every good endeavor, even the simplest ones, pursued in response to God's calling can matter forever.