I'm not super-athletic.

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.

This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.

I like to move around. I travel. I've driven across country by myself.

The realization of our true substance and potential is the purpose of creation.

As long as our orientation is toward perfection or success, we will never learn about unconditional friendship with ourselves, nor will we find compassion.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

Don't feed the trolls; nothing fuels them so much.

I get to be married to the liveliest mind I've ever encountered.... I hit the jackpot.

Freedom can't be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.

Let every man in mankind's frailtyConsider his last day; and let nonePresume on his good fortune until he findLife, at his death, a memory without pain.

I very seldom compose anything in my head which later finds its way into text, except character names sometimes - I'm often very much inspired by things that I misunderstand.