Quotes About Rookies

#1. What makes you think that I give a shit about your self-confidence?

Toba Beta

#2. Garbage time is that time at the end of the game when the points don't really matter, and nothing you do can really affect the overall outcome, but the rookies usually get a chance to play on the big stage.

Katie Nolan

#3. You said if they're assigned to Indian Country they are either rookies or have trouble with authority. Did

Louise Erdrich

#4. I'm not a rookie anymore-no more excuses about being young.

Adrian Beltre

#5. Funny how so many rookies out there still judge condition of the US economy on the rigged "stock market". I frankly find it hilarious.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#6. It's not like I'm a rookie pilot. In fact, I invented airplanes. And air.

David Blatt

#7. My rookie is manly, so manly, oh so manly his name is Derrick Bateman.

Daniel Bryan

#8. It is professional snobbery that refrains training rookies.

Aniruddha Sastikar

#9. Being picked for the Pro Bowl is a feeling I can't describe. I never thought I'd be out here as a rookie, so it's great.

Eddie Lacy

#10. A player cannot be part of the training camp experience as a rookie unless he is signed to a contract.

Leigh Steinberg

#11. Chris Pittaro is the best rookie I've had in 15 years.

Sparky Anderson

#12. Rookies are also coming in from college programs as big stars, whereas when we came in, we were just happy to be there. We were happy to be playing in a big gym, to be on television, to be playing in America.

Sue Wicks

#13. Tried on daddy's 1979 rookie firesuit a while back. Smelled every bit of 36 years old.

Dale Earnhardt Jr.

#14. When I was a rookie, Cy Young used to hit me flies to sharpen my abilities to judge in advance the direction and distance of an outfield-hit ball.

Tris Speaker

#15. A no-hitter secures a pitcher's spot on an elite yet diverse list that embraces Hall of Famers, struggling journeymen, and wide-eyed rookies.

Dirk Lammers

#16. The start of my rookie season when there was so much pressure, so many expectations, and so much excitement surrounding the return of the No. 3 to the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, and then we went out and won the pole for the Daytona 500. That was a very special moment.

Austin Dillon

#17. Some of the money going to the rookies can now be spent on people who have proved their worth. After all, the average playing life of a pro football player is about eight years and it is only fitting that the veterans get something for their efforts.

Bob Lilly

#18. Harmon Killebrew was a gem. I can never thank him enough for all I learned from him. He was a consummate professional who treated everyone from the brashest of rookies to the groundskeepers to the ushers in the stadium with the utmost of respect.

Rod Carew

#19. When I first signed with the Yankees, the regulars wouldn't talk to you until you were with the team three or four years. Nowadays the rookies get $100,000 to sign and they don't talk to the regulars.

Lefty Gomez

#20. The NBA is a big family, and I think of all these rookies as my brothers. I still believe I am blue collar among the All-Stars.

Yao Ming

#21. I remember I was a scared rookie, hitting .220 after the first three months of my baseball season, and doubting my ability.

Carl Yastrzemski

#22. Rookies talk rubbish.

Toba Beta

#23. Halas didn't believe in starting rookies.

Gale Sayers

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

Andrew Bogut

#25. New sales managers are the forgotten rookie - they were pros at selling, but all of a sudden they're a rookie at management.

Chris Lytle

#26. I tell all the rookies that come into our series and all the young drivers they can come ask me anything at any time, and we'll give them the straight shoot.

Al Unser

#27. We have a lot of rookies in the lineup. More than anybody, I would say. Its going to be something new for them. They have to understand that it's totally different hockey in the playoffs. Starting with the fans, the intensity of the game, every mistake counts.

Jaromir Jagr

#28. Rookies always knew everything, which was what got them in trouble.

Evan Currie

#29. MC's they retreat cause they know I can beat 'em,
And eat 'em in a battle and the ref won't cheat 'em.
I'm the best takin' out all rookies,
So forget Oreos ... eat Cool J cookies.

LL Cool J

#30. I've always liked to shoot from the hip. This is the perfect fit for me ... I'm willing to earn my spurs, because once again, after 18 years I'm back to being a rookie.

Reggie Miller

#31. Rookies tend to show off.

Toba Beta

#32. Veterans and remarkable rookies. International Thriller Writers, Inc. (ITW) cofounder, David

Lee Child