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My rookie year was huge for me as far as the learning curve, especially those last three games.
The connection that readers have to 'Rookie' has only meant more and more to me as I get older.
Winning the Rookie of the Year would be nice but making the playoffs would be even nicer for me.
What the Jets did with Mark Sanchez, they took a rookie quarterback and went pretty far with him.
It's been a long journey. Continued to work through my rookie year. I was hurt a lot. Up and down.
I collected baseball and football cards. My most valuable was probably a Mark McGwire rookie card.
As an NFL rookie, I had to buy meals for older guys. I appreciate hierarchy. I understand teamwork.
As a rookie, I was a pick-and-roll player. I was an energy guy who could dunk, block shots, rebound.
You won't ever see me being totally sexy on 'Rookie Blue.' It's not right for the character, anyway.
When Obama heralds another 'teachable moment,' it means he has already made an egregious rookie mistake.
Any rookie that can develop a mentorship with a former quarterback like Jim Kelly, it's going to be huge.
One goal I want to accomplish is I want to be known as the hardest-working guy on the team 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 learned a lot my rookie season - the pace of the game. Playing at the right pace, not 100 miles an hour.
You come into the NBA, dudes are trying to come after you. You're a rookie. They look at you as fresh meat.
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 had some definite weaknesses my rookie year that I had to work on and hopefully I've gotten better at those.
That's what I've learned: you are always to improve whether you are a Hall of Fame quarterback or some rookie.
I've always loved the idea of the rookie cop vs. the grizzled veteran. A lot of comedy can be mined from that.
As a rookie, I had changed positions. In college, I was a quarterback, and I had never played other positions.
I want to be on the All-Defensive team, be rookie of the year, make the All-Star team, all that type of stuff.
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.'
My rookie season, I wore 8 because I had wanted 15, but it's retired in Philadelphia. I had worn 15 in college.
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.
It's hard to reinvent the wheel with a cop show. But 'Rookie Blue' has a pure emotional center that's not cynical.
'Rookie' is not your guide to Being a Teen. It is, quite simply, a bunch of writing and art we like and believe in.
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.
A lot of rookies don't come into the league and have that type of leeway that Coach Walton and his staff really gave me.
The pleasing thing is being able to be in an environment where, even though I'm a rookie, everyone wants to help you out.
I didn't expect this - to be 19, be a rookie, playing this much and having a kid. It's a lot, but, I mean, I'm enjoying it.
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.
It was always in the back of my mind while we were working on the first year of 'Rookie' that we'd do a print version at some point.
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.
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.
When I was a rookie, what motivated me was trying to win Rookie of the Year and play the best that I could that I would compete so hard.
Honestly, I chose 1 because I wore it in college and my rookie year. My mind wasn't even thinking about D-Rose and everything like that.
Some rookies build bad habits and it's not until year three, four, five that they get to be part of a winning-type organization and culture.
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.
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.
There are a lot of things that you learn as a rookie and you grow the most, I would say as a rookie from your first year to your second year.