45 quotes about rookies follow in order of popularity. Be sure to bookmark and share your favorites!

I'm happy Phil is back. I'm very happy about it. He really doesn't play rookies but I'm not a rookie anymore. I'm very excited about coming back and they're very excited about me in the triangle offense.

Brian Cook

One reason was we gave that many rookies that much of an opportunity, and two, we were very patient with the opportunity. The surprise was how this season has unfolded. We've had so many injuries and we've hung in there so well through the process.

Dan O'dowd

Paula has played incredibly well during her rookie year and has displayed poise and maturity beyond her years. She has consistently played at the highest level and has set a new performance standard for rookies.

Carolyn Bivens

We knew we were going back, but it's going to be a good experience for the rookies. Being in that environment is really going to be good for them.

Manny T. Lopez

People might say we didn't need this victory. I think we very much needed it. The Russian soccer needed it. Look at how many rookies we had.

Georgy Yartsev

As rookies, we can't be a weak link. We can't play like rookies.

Josh Bullocks

For the rookies, I just wanted them to get the feel for what a track meet is like, but Rebecca ran a nice race and picked up some points for the team, which should be encouraging for the future.

Andrew Papamichael

The best thing that happened for most of these rookies is the lockout. They got another year to mature away from the NHL. ... It made a huge difference for all of them.

Pierre Maguire

What it will be like when we have the full pack of 18 of us out there, well that's a different matter. There'll be all the air disturbance, there'll be rookies who might be hesitating, there'll be drivers taking different lines dictated by their set-ups, and so on. It will be a different ball game.

Dan Clarke

We did an excellent job and everybody played well. Hat's off to the veterans and the rookies -- I'm proud of all of them.

Robert Brunn

We won't sit down with the Prime Minister's office until much closer to the day to look at the young rookies. The Prime Minister has a very hands-on role in this too.

Peter Young

Given the short period of time they have had to operate, GMs have preferred reliable veterans as opposed to unproven rookies.

Anton Thun

I've played this game for a long time, and I have the ability to play through adversity. This feels great. Some of the rookies might have been nervous, but us veterans don't have pre-game jitters.

Rayshawn Askew

What rookies expect to start? I mean, the first pick of the draft may start. It's just turned out to be a great fit for me.

Dan Buenning

Financial advice is very important for the rookies. You have to remember that 33 percent of the players who enter this league leave it in worse financial shape than when they went in. Our goal is to help them do what they want to do after their career is over, not what they have to do.

Jim Huller

From losing a point after 16 to winning 17 with a birdie and 18 with a par, two of the most difficult, dramatic holes out here, from two rookies was just unbelievable.

Bernhard Langer

He does well for us with the rookies, Craig Cameron.

Neale Daniher

Both are Welshmen, and have played together so much that they know each other's game. I felt that this was the best situation for two rookies.

Jim Farmer

Last game, I told (Williams) and Domonique Foxworth, I said, 'You guys have something as rookies that I didn't have when I was a rookie, and that's called confidence,' ... They have that swagger to them where they're not really intimidated.

Nick Ferguson

If you ask me, it's impossible to pick any of our four rookies as the best. All four guys bring something different to the table, and they're all so valuable to us. I'm glad I don't have to make that call.

Jason Kendall

We can't play like rookies. I told my dad (Aaron Turner) on Saturday that I would gain 150 yards. I came so close.

Cadillac Williams

I think they handled their first playoff game really well. I didn't think they looked any different from guys who have been five or six years in the playoffs. If we're going to go on a run, (the rookies) are going to be a big part of it ? just like they were last year.

Paul Cabana

I don't think you can put your finger on one thing. The rookies and excitement and energy around those guys have certainly helped. I don't think there's any one thing that's a definitive factor.

Derek Schiller

The NBA is a big family, and I think of all these rookies as my brothers. I still believe I am blue collar among the All-Stars.

Yao Ming

Like for most rookies, this is a learning experience. A 13-0 lead is not enough. There is never enough. Even if we are up all the way to the end, we need to play the whole game.

Demarcus Ware

It is also the first time that the number of the athletes in snow events exceeds those in ice events. Though we are just rookies in snow events, our athletes are confident to try their best in the Games.

Cui Dalin

If we can just get the defense behind her — we haven't had defense all year. We had eight (errors) yesterday at Monterey. It's making the pitchers get extra outs and throw to extra batters. We're making rookie mistakes, and the people making them aren't rookies.

Gary Paul Parnham

This is no time for rookies.

Norman Robinson

I saw it last year and they did, too. It's not secret that last year is going to happen again. How our big-league club is shaping up with a lot of rookies, they are going to keep their eyes on us and how they go about their business, how they perform.

Luis Dorante

We were called out and we stepped up pretty well. We don't care about being rookies. We just want to play.

Dan Buenning

The mini-camp gave me the opportunity to see some of my players in action long before the opening of spring training camps in Florida. I want to see some rookies who have a chance to make the team and new players we acquired through free agency.

Tony Pena

The objective is to provide an analog close to space where the consequences are really life and death, ... Rookies can make their mistakes before they get to space.

Marc Reagan

We have some good rookies here and they understand how good a shot we do have.

Dylan Hunter

These underclassmen have gotten enough experience because of the circumstances, and now they're performing more like veterans than rookies.

Keith Hauber

We were expecting to blow them out of the gym and send them home early. But we're surrounded by a lot of rookies, and this is their first time in an arena like this. They had to calm down and let the game come to them.

Manny T. Lopez

Thanks to Toyota, Elite rookies now have the opportunity to earn close to an additional $800,000 in 2006.

Trip Weldon

With the stakes we are trying to aspire to it is not a job for rookies. We feel we have not taken guys who are over the hill either - which has been the case in the past. We've got guys at the peak of their careers.

Alex Mcleish

Eric worked hard. He likes traffic. He gives you the same thing every day - it doesn't matter what group he's in (whether against rookies or veterans).

Darryl Sutter

You've got to pay attention to who you're coaching. These guys are not rookies. They are people who know how to pitch. They are all very close (to where they need to be). They just need a watchful eye.

Brett Jodie

What he does is super hard. You don't see middle linebackers started as rookies that much because there's so much to do. That's why he's the X-factor.

Isaiah Kacyvenski

We had 132 rookies here. We expect a lot of them to be back for Vancouver.

Alex Gardiner

A lot of rookies wish they could open up the season like he did.

Jimmy Smith

It's real important to get him back. We lost [Paul Grasmanis to injury], and we've been relying on a couple of young pups [rookies Mike Patterson and Keyonta Marshall] and Truck Driver [Sam Rayburn]. Nothing against the younger guys, but they don't have the experience we older guys possess. This gives us our real rotation back.

Hollis Thomas

I think to win you need a combination of things. You need that veteran leadership and veteran ability to perform in the clutch and understand the pressures of having been there before. But you also need that boyish enthusiasm of rookies who don't even understand the pressures and the fear because they're just so excited to be there.

Terry Mcguirk

The future is what NASCAR wants it to be. They are going to make of it (the series) what they want to. They need to look at it as a feeder system. They need to keep getting rookies from some place.

Eddie Hoffman