The Rookie Of The Year Quotes

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

Andrew Bogut

#2. I agreed to film after my rookie year in Golden State. I was more used to cameras and felt that my journey to the NBA was a story worth sharing. Little did we know how much bigger the platform and documentary would become after Linsanity.

Jeremy Lin

#3. Veterans get priority in the training room and better parking, but there is not a whole lot of difference in terms of how they're treated in the competition for playing time. To me it doesn't matter if a guy is a 10-year veteran or a rookie. If the rookie is better, he finds his way onto the field.

Brendan Daly

#4. I'm trying to be a sponge. People say, 'Well, that's what your rookie year is.' I still feel that way in my second year.

Scott Tolzien

#5. It's an honor to win the Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year award.

Peter Uihlein

#6. I know how difficult my rookie year in the NFL was and I know how competitive this sport is.

Troy Aikman

#7. My rookie year, I was very immature.

Dennis Rodman

#8. I actually became a Christian in my rookie year on tour when I was 16 years old.

Michael Chang

#9. I judge movies on how much fun I had while I was doing them. I had a great time on 'The Right Stuff.' Doing that was fantastic. And there was the year I did 'The Rookie' and 'Far From Heaven,' which was amazing because those two different roles were just so far apart.

Dennis Quaid

#10. After I made it to the NBA, I said that I didn't want to be the last player from Africa. After my rookie year, I went to the league and talked about this, and they embraced my idea and started conducting basketball clinics in Africa, and that's when I knew I wouldn't be the last African.

Dikembe Mutombo

#11. My rookie year was huge for me as far as the learning curve, especially those last three games.

Tim Tebow

#12. Oh this young man has had a very trying rookie season, with the litigation, the notoriety, his subsequent deportation to Canada and that country's refusal to accept him, well, I guess that's more than most 21-year-olds can handle... Ogie Ogilthorpe!

Jim Carr

#13. I turned pro and won Rookie of the Year on the South African Tour and then it took me two tries at the qualifying school on the European Tour and to get my card and the rest is history.

Retief Goosen