Rookie Struggles Quotes

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.

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.

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.

I came into the league traded. So I'm not the only person that goes through trade rumors each year.

Young quarterbacks usually experience bumps in the road. I'll take them in stride.

Typically, it takes young players years to adjust to life in the big leagues and to start performing up to their capabilities. Most of the blame for this rests on these ridiculous old baseball norms that say young players are to be seen and not heard.

[On Willie Mays] He was something like zero for twenty-one the first time I saw him. His first major league hit was a home run off me and I'll never forgive myself. We might have gotten rid of Willie (Mays) forever if I'd only struck him out.

My rookie year, Byron Scott didn't really want to sign me. In New Jersey, the New Jersey Nets. I got there, and Byron Scott didn't really like me, but they let me come to camp and I was having a great camp. Stephon Marbury embraced me.

I wasn't ready for the majors when I joined the Pirates in 1955. I was too young and didn't know my way around.

I can't imagine as a rookie actually playing good football. I went through it.

For whatever reason, Coach Schwartz and I weren't all that close at first. We didn't have that kind of relationship, really. I don't know why, maybe because I was a rookie, but I never felt real comfortable just popping my head in his office and sitting down to talk.

I kind of think the rookie wall is all in your mind, to be completely honest.

Every rookie, every player, is going to go through their struggles throughout the season.

I remember I was a scared rookie, hitting .220 after the first three months of my baseball season, and doubting my ability.

A lot of rookies hit the wall after 50 or 60 games.

My biggest problem in the big leagues is that I can't figure out how to spend forty-three dollars in meal money.