Andrew Bogut Quotes

I can cook a little bit but pretty much when I get back from practice I am pretty tired that I just order out.

In Australian culture, people are just more laid back, people aren't as serious, they just take their time with things. It's just like, whatever, if I don't get it done I don't get it done.

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

The American attitude is 'We're the best'. That's why the NBA guys who come from other countries, the Europeans, all sort of stick together away from the game.

Winning the Rookie of the Year would be nice but making the playoffs would be even nicer for me.

I think because I am a proven rookie that it is going to help me in the long run.

I was struggling at Rookie Camp to be quite honest with you. Basically, it was a week of being locked down like in jail for me. I would say about 50 percent of it was useful. The most challenging part of it was off the court. I mean, man we were just sitting there at times. We had meetings from about 10 a.m. in the morning to about 10 at night and you can't get a workout in at all.

You can't really get into regular football after you watch Australian rules football because it's just two different ends of the totem pole.

I'm not a fan of baseball really.

I'm not going to put my energy into dunking every time I get the ball. That's stupid.

We scored a season-high, yeah - albeit against a team that is somewhat tanking.

I guess if you're a normal person and all of a sudden you're getting $10 million a year, it can go to your head.

I don't think you ever want to be too settled, because once you become settled, you lose a lot of your drive. I mean, I am settled off the court; the business side of things, the papers, contracts and all of that, but there are a lot things that I need to work on, on the court, like my free-throw shooting, which has been terrible. I need to work on being more demanding in the post. My teammates are going to come to me and I just need to go out there and score in the post, which will open up things for our guards.

We have a high ceiling. We're still young. We're still learning coach's system and we're still learning how to play hard every night. I think that's been a bad habit of ours the last few years. It's a habit that's hard to shake, too. I think if we keep pushing, we'll be alright this season.

I've had two unlucky injuries that are the equivalent of walking under 1,000 ladders and seeing 1,000 black cats.

Concentrate on defense because the offense will come.

Going home to Australia, it's good to get home, but it's kind of bad too because you get used to that way of life again and you have to come back to America.

I just want to try to ignore the scrutiny and all the distractions and just play hard basketball and let the best come ... Improving game by game and trying to improve my game is what I want to do.

This is my job and I respect it enough to concentrate on it.