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.

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.

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.

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.

Love has two rules: the first one is love, and the second one is love some more.

He who is deaf to wisdom is blind to good.

Jesus please teach me to appreciate what I have before time forces me to appreciate what I had.

When an animal dies, it gives you the chance to love another animal. That's an insightful and profound way to look at it.

Anything you make has its own wavelength and its own sound. It's like a tuning fork, until the things that resonate are correct for it.

Buddhists believe that you are who you are today is because of who you have been in all your past lives.

Funny, how moms can tell you what to do no matter how old or big you are.

Even little children repeat that oftentimes people are hanged for having told the truth.

The public buys "art" - but the word is drained of its meaning.