Top 289 Rookie Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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Last updated on December 19, 2024.
Being traded a couple times - and I've been traded after winning Rookie of the Year - is out of your control.
I've been told a million things in this league. I was Rookie of the Year, and then got traded... So it's hard for me to sit back and believe everything I hear.
Every rookie, every player, is going to go through their struggles throughout the season. — © Kevin Knox
Every rookie, every player, is going to go through their struggles throughout the season.
I had some definite weaknesses my rookie year that I had to work on and hopefully I've gotten better at those.
Winning the Rookie of the Year would be nice but making the playoffs would be even nicer for me.
I remember when I was a rookie, Jerry Rice, I worked out with him, and he always told me, 'You take less hits, you can play a longer time.'
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.
The connection that readers have to 'Rookie' has only meant more and more to me as I get older.
It would be special, just to know I had the best rookie season a running back has had in this league, especially a record that's been however old it is.
When I started playing the game I was just worried about making that next tackle. Especially as a rookie, you're figuring out what you're doing and where you're supposed to be going, what the defense is, and trying not to make mistake.
I remember when I was a rookie, there was an article in 'USA Today' that said, 'Larry Bird, he's lost a step.' That night I went out to guard him, he scored, like, 47 on me.
Going into my rookie year I expect to play well and I expect to win a lot of games.
On rookie Alex Selivanov, Yes the guy can score you 40 goals. Yes I love it. What I don't want is him causing 60.
As you get to F1 as a rookie, you want to prove what you can do and show your potential and I couldn't really do that for different reasons, and it was mentally really, really tough.
My anxiety has gotten worse as I've graduated and gotten older, and I still feel like 'Rookie' is a place where I can talk about that, and hopefully someone relates to it. — © Tavi Gevinson
My anxiety has gotten worse as I've graduated and gotten older, and I still feel like 'Rookie' is a place where I can talk about that, and hopefully someone relates to it.
I don't look at a man who's expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.
People ask me about the decision to transition from fashion to 'Rookie' magazine. But it wasn't a decision. I was 14, and my interests were changing.
I think I had a good rookie year, but at the end of the day, I want to be one of the best tight ends ever to play, and I'm going to set my standard for that and work toward that goal.
The idea that feeling confident and feeling misunderstood are mutually exclusive really bugs me. So a lot of what 'Rookie' is about is just showing that you can be both, and you can like whatever you want.
You come into the NBA, dudes are trying to come after you. You're a rookie. They look at you as fresh meat.
Every veteran out there, veteran or rookie, they want to go to the Super Bowl and win it and get the best opportunity.
If I could go back in time and give Rookie C.J one piece of wisdom, it would be that sometimes less is more. Off the court, sometimes it's just better to shut up and be quiet.
I almost got traded my rookie year or my second year in the league.
I created 'Rookie' because I read a lot of websites that I thought were cool and interesting, but they weren't for teens, and I wanted us to have something that could be ours.
I think any player, as a rookie coming into any sport, has to prove themselves.
I see a lot of people judging me and my rookie season, but I'm not really worried about struggling. I know I'm only going to get better.
Everybody would love to be able to be great and make it to the NBA All-Star Game as a rookie. I mean, that is everybody's goal.
I've been wearing Zegna for a while. It started a long, long time ago, my rookie year.
I was invited to play with the New York Knicks. I was never drafted, but I was invited to the rookie camp.
I get recognized for 'Reaper' in the U.K. I was in Costa Rica and got recognized for 'Heroes.' In Canada, it's 'Rookie Blue.' People also think that I'm in the 'Twilight' series because of Kristen Stewart.
One goal I want to accomplish is I want to be known as the hardest-working guy on the team my rookie year.
I think rather than further the stereotypes of me going into the league and being 'the Harvard guy,' I shattered those when I was a rookie and I couldn't call a play in the huddle.
When I was a rookie people would always ask, 'What are you going to bring to the team?' Now I don't get asked that question anymore. People know.
I don't really want to be cocky when I say this, but I really feel I can be one of the best rim protectors in the league, you know, as a rookie.
I'm not capable of being in a group where I'm not the leader. I did it once earlier in my career with Legacy, and that was cool because I was young and green and a rookie in the industry, but now no more.
I don't think of myself as a comedian, but as an artist, a scientist and chemist who just happens to be funny. I started doing stand-up to add another level to my game. I feel that I'm a young rookie with a veteran's skill.
The better quarterbacks are real consistent. Rookie quarterbacks are not.
Every rookie that thought they was good, I went at them to make sure they knew I was the best point guard in the league, and they had to go through me. That's just the way I was.
It's hard to speculate, but it was tough when coach Paul Westphal drafted me and wanted me there and then got fired two weeks into my rookie year. — © Jimmer Fredette
It's hard to speculate, but it was tough when coach Paul Westphal drafted me and wanted me there and then got fired two weeks into my rookie year.
Of course, MIT was notable not just for its faculty but also for its students. And, facing such extremely bright kids as a rookie teacher was something like being thrown to the wolves.
My rookie is manly, so manly, oh so manly his name is Derrick Bateman.
Didn't know until my rookie year you could buy chicken parts separate, like drumsticks and thighs and breast. My granny always bought the whole chicken and cut it up.
Dr. Cox mentors the rookie doctors with a spoonful of dirt and then a cup of sugar. I see him as an archetypal descendent of two of my favorite curmudgeonly characters: Lou Grant and Louie De Palma.
I'd like 'Rookie' to be a helpful resource, but I never want it to be too prescriptive. Hopefully, it also makes the reader feel encouraged to think for herself.
You don't come up expecting to be a fan favorite. When I was a rookie, I was just trying to make a name for myself, but people already knew who I was and already had expectations for me.
Any rookie is going to go through a transition process that's going to be tough.
I learned a lot my rookie season - the pace of the game. Playing at the right pace, not 100 miles an hour.
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.
I'm country at heart. I love doing normal stuff, like back in my rookie year when nobody knew who I was, and I could grab dinner and have normal conversations.
I want to be on the All-Defensive team, be rookie of the year, make the All-Star team, all that type of stuff. — © Andrew Wiggins
I want to be on the All-Defensive team, be rookie of the year, make the All-Star team, all that type of stuff.
Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.
As a rookie, I need to play a lot. I need to know what courses I like and adjust to the atmosphere and the lifestyle of playing at the highest level.
I don't care how much you traveled in college, and I don't care what kind of shape you're in. Travel is the one thing you're absolutely not prepared for as a rookie.
I backpacked all around the world and kind of found myself. Then I settled back in L.A. and found 'Rookie Blue.'
One of my intentions with 'Rookie' is for the girls reading it to know that they are already cool enough and smart enough and pretty enough.
I was fortunate to be in a great situation in Canton, be the leader of the team my rookie year. I got to show a lot of people that I was an NBA player on a nightly basis.
I feel like a pro now. Before I fought Holmes, I felt like a rookie.
Baseball is a rookie, his experience no bigger than the lump in his throat as he begins fulfillment of his dream.
It's one thing to talk to a vet about something, but when you're talking to a fellow rookie going through the same struggles you are, you kind of understand it - and you grow together like that.
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.
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