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Any rookie that can develop a mentorship with a former quarterback like Jim Kelly, it's going to be huge.
I was invited to play with the New York Knicks. I was never drafted, but I was invited to the rookie camp.
One goal I want to accomplish is I want to be known as the hardest-working guy on the team my rookie year.
It would have been harder for me to get rookie of the year in Cleveland than it would've been in Minnesota.
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.
Being traded a couple times - and I've been traded after winning Rookie of the Year - is out of your control.
I've always loved the idea of the rookie cop vs. the grizzled veteran. A lot of comedy can be mined from that.
I had some definite weaknesses my rookie year that I had to work on and hopefully I've gotten better at those.
As a rookie, I had changed positions. In college, I was a quarterback, and I had never played other positions.
That's what I've learned: you are always to improve whether you are a Hall of Fame quarterback or some rookie.
As a rookie, I worked with my agent and the training staff to figure out what diet works for my body naturally.
To my mind, a mix of veterans and rookies is number one on the list of 'things that make a good Avengers team.'
I backpacked all around the world and kind of found myself. Then I settled back in L.A. and found 'Rookie Blue.'
Baseball is a rookie, his experience no bigger than the lump in his throat as he begins fulfillment of his dream.
I'm not big on rookie hazing. I didn't wanna be hazed as a rookie, so I definitely didn't want to do it to others.
Every veteran out there, veteran or rookie, they want to go to the Super Bowl and win it and get the best opportunity.
I think one thing I had going for me that a lot of rookies didn't is that we played 15, 16 games every year in college.
I don't know if there were many pros for me playing early. I feel like I dug myself a pretty deep hole that rookie year.
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 pleasing thing is being able to be in an environment where, even though I'm a rookie, everyone wants to help you out.
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 was lucky in my rookie year to play in the NBA Finals, to have that experience, to see what it was like to get to that stage.
So many of my rookie mistakes could have been avoided by first-hand exposure to other, more experienced technology entrepreneurs.
I think just consistency. That's the hardest thing to do in this league, especially for a rookie. There are going to be ups and downs.
My uncle, my dad always made sure I had guard skills. But as far as defending everybody, that wasn't really my mindset until my rookie year.
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.
We usually have a rookie show when camp is almost over. It's a chance to get to know the rookies and to have fun and set the pace for the season.
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.
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.
A lot of people have compared being an NBA rookie to being a fraternity pledge. It's not really intense like that. It's more like being an intern.
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.
In Cleveland, I was a young rookie. I was trying to be like the veterans when I wasn't a veteran. That was definitely the wrong way to go about things.
Any time you get a new running back, whether it's a rookie or hasn't played a lot, that's the first thing you test, is their pass protection. That's big.
Me and my brother growing up used to collect rookie and basketball cards, like MJ's and LeBron's. That's what we used to collect, have a lot signed as well.
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.
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 still think that rookie season was the most shocking to everyone, at least in my hometown here. I mean, it was insane. They couldn't believe I was doing this.
I wasn't put on the cover of 'Sports Illustrated' as a plus-size model; I was put on the cover of 'Sports Illustrated' as a model, as a rookie, as Ashley Graham.
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.
I have a PS2 and Xbox and a GameCube: that way, in case anything comes out that looks cool, I have the system to play it on. I got everything, bro, I ain't no rookie.
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 think getting your head in the right mental space is important, and maybe I do need to go back to my rookie vibes to where I'm very happy-go-lucky, nothing really matters.
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.
I'm definitely a jaded traveler, but you try to make the best of what you know about the experience. Like, I know how to pack a bag. I know that checking a bag is for rookies.
Poetry was my dirty little secret when I was a fiction writer at Iowa, and then fiction became my dirty little secret when I started writing more poetry and working for 'Rookie'.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.