Andrew Bogut Quotations

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.

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.

These days, to be seven years in one spot in any pro sport is a pretty long tenure.

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 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.

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.

The public's got it right, a lot of NBA stars are arrogant and like to spend lots of money and have lots of girlfriends and all that.

The thing with NBA teams, a lot of times they just want to get you back on the floor to play, so as a player you've got to be very, very smart.

Playing in sold out arenas several nights a week is something I have never experience before. I want to experience that. I want to experience that in my first year and build on that.

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.

What I would say is I've only had one injury in my NBA career that was probably was because my core wasn't strong enough, when I had a stress fracture in my back.

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

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

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

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

We've beaten Dallas and some other teams when we've had guys out. Every week there's a different guy out. We're used to it now and guys are getting used to stepping up. So it hasn't been a problem for us but it would be definitely better to have (Ford back).

When we have lapses defensively, then we start throwing rocks at the rim. It all goes downhill at once. We don't get stops and they score and we come down and shoot up rocks. That's the problem with us. One thing happens to us (defensively) and we turn it over or take a bad shot on the next possession and it all collapses.

The only way to beat Phoenix is hope to get them on a bad day and hope they miss shots.

We didn't want him to go off for 50, but he shot the ball so well coming out that it's was kind of hard to stop him. Other guys didn't get involved in the second half and that keyed us.

Some American guys talk and try to intimidate you. Basketball is basketball. You put the ball in the hole, and you're going to win the game. You've just got to keep playing your game.

Milwaukee is different from what I'm used to. It's cold and it's much more of an old town, a traditional city. When I first got here, compared to the cities I'm used to, Milwaukee was the complete opposite. It took awhile but I'm adjusted to it now.

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 grew up watching him play on the Bulls. Between him and Michael Jordan I would've rather seen Toni score 30 points in a game.

I don't care about numbers, man, I just want to win basketball games, ... I just want to get Milwaukee back in the playoffs, and if we do that I'll be happy.

Basketball is a global game, just like soccer is a global game. You see the Manu Ginobilis and Yao Mings of the world. We can play the game in every country.

We've got to win. These are our rivals, New Jersey, Chicago and Philly.

He's doing OK. The first day, it was a little suspect, but it's OK.

Underdog isn't even the word to describe us. I don't know what we are. I mean, we're under-under-under-underdogs.

I think it's unbelievable. Getting your jersey retired, whether it be in high school, college, little league or whatever. It's an amazing achievement. It's something you'll remember forever.

I will definitely play in the world championships. We will just go trying to take teams out as the underdogs, and then we will be happy.

I remember when I was a kid having the Friday night games or the Saturday night games - a South East Melbourne versus Melbourne . . . they were huge, sold out, you couldn't get a ticket,

Some guys want to be the best, and that's how they show it. Me? I think being the best means winning games.

I think I have a lot of room for improvement. I just got to keep striving to work hard everyday and I think good things will happen. As long as we get the win it doesn't matter what I did.

That's the sort of thing that I have spoken to him about as a friend - I've told him you've got to bulk up,

That's the NBA life for you. You've got no excuses not to be ready - get the smell off your body, ice on your knees and get back into it.

We'd rather get five and get Cleveland, but it's going to be a tough game.

We're definitely positive. To win a few games obviously would be nice. We'd like to win the series, but being realistic, they're the No. 1 seed. We're just going to try to take a game or two, and on any day, you never know what can happen.

We had our backs against the wall. We showed great character. If we hadn't worked so hard in practice we would have lost that one by 30,

We have the toughest team in the league. But we've got the mind-set we can win.

We get down by 15 and we come back, but we exert so much energy and then we get down again. It's never-ending. It's been like that all season.

To be an owner of a team is something I dream of doing once I retire. Maybe even a soccer team and a basketball team. I can't see myself away from basketball if I retire at 30 or 40. That would be something to look at in the future.

I think Chris Paul is a great player. He is very unselfish and plays very hard, so he would be a guy if he plays. I think his hand is still questionable, though. I hear they are talking about resting him that weekend. I'm excited to play with all the guys. Marvin Williams is starting to play well, and Salim Stoudamire, I think he should be there.

Concentrate on defense because the offense will come.

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.

It's definitely different in the States. Americans are much different people compared to us. We're much more laid back. I itch to get back to Australia every summer because it's so fast paced there and so stressful.

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

I'm not a fan of baseball really.

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 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.

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

I'm not super-athletic.

I'm not into jewelry. I've got some earrings but they're not too expensive. There are guys who drop a hundred grand for a chain. The public's got it right - a lot of NBA stars are arrogant and like to spend lots of money and have lots of girlfriends and all that.

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 come out soft. Every team that has come in here has probably run the first quarter.

We put ourselves in a position to make a move and then it collapses. It's never ending.

You have to be smart the way you play him; he shoots the ball so well. You have to go in there and play with energy, try to take him out of his game. But it's going to be tough.

There is always room for improvement in every area.

We tried to make him shoot the jumper in the first half and we brought help on him (in the second half). He started to find teammates, and that's the sign of a great player. He didn't try to come out and get 50. He came out and nearly got a triple-double. The smart players know how to do that.

We just need to know what it feels like to win a playoff game. Even if we don't win this series, as a young team to build for next year it's just good to get a playoff win.

We win this game, everything changes. That's the story of our season. We make things very hard on ourselves.

To be honest it is going to be hard for him. Teams are going to sit on him and make him pass the ball. Teams know they cannot allow Michael to score 30 or 40 because it keeps us in games. So they are going to make him pass the ball. At the same time we need more from other players.

There's no way we're going to lose Game 3 and come back and win this thing. There's not going to be any fairy tales. We need to get Game 3.

I've never had a buzzer-beating game-winner, but to do it in the NBA against the world champions is a great feeling. The guy I've always looked up to is Tim Duncan . So, to do this against his team is a great feeling for me.

It would be nice to own a team in Melbourne, seeing I'm from here, but whether it's Melbourne, Sydney, Cairns, it doesn't matter. I think they're all good markets.

Definitely not. I don't like how it looks, but I don't play basketball for looks.

That's what we spoke about in the locker room, character in an NBA game. It's more crucial to play hard in the last minute than the first 39. Anything can happen in the final minute of an NBA game.

That's not my goal, to win rookie of the year. I don't care about that stuff. Individual goals. Usually, the rookie of the year doesn't make it to the playoffs. I'd rather make it to the playoffs.

There's a lot of Bucks jerseys being ordered online and a lot of people asking for jerseys, ... There will be expectations on me as the No. 1 pick, from the media around the world, basically. Every game I'm going to be scrutinized, and I just have to deal with that.

It's just great to be out here, ... I was just thankful to be living my dream of playing in the NBA.

It was good for a laugh back then, I guess,

It's not one of those plays you can't really practice. It just worked out.

It's kind of hard to adjust to their style of play. We tried to throw some different looks at them, but at the end of the day, it wasn't really up to us. It was up to their missed shots.

It's frustrating. We don't play Phoenix many times, so it's kind of hard to adjust to their style of play.

It's been a challenge, but at the same time it's been a learning experience and I'm having fun with the guys on the team.

It's part of the game. But it's frustrating because I was saying the same thing that Detroit was saying but I said it and I get T-ed up. And then the possession they say it but they don't get T-ed. I guess that's one of the things I have to deal with. I'm still a rookie.

It's much better. Much better. Now we have to do that against the good teams.

It's been good. We go to dinner together and talk about stuff. It's really helped me out. He's seen the worst of things; he's seen the best of things. So he's a good guy to talk to about things.

It'll be fun, but it's more of a fan thing. To me, winning games and getting to the playoffs is the big thing.

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

not as slow as Luc Longley. I can shoot better, I'm more competitive. So I think it's not even fair to bring that name up.

It's very special for me to come and see them play.

They wanted to get out of here, which was good for us.

Once he was gone, the guys didn't really flow in their offence as much. There was a lot of pressure on Parker and (Robert) Horry and those guys, and that really helped us.

I'm excited just to play, and excited to be in the national spotlight.

I'm definitely honoured to be the No. 1 ticket-holder. I've followed the league since I was a kid and I've got some close friends playing in the NBL.

I'm definitely going to be coming into sport. It will be in Australia. Basketball will hopefully be the priority,

I'm just trying to play hard. I'm just proving a point to myself that I can play in this league.

I'm just happy to be a part of the weekend. To be an All-Star is something very special, and that will take a couple years. It might not happen next year, it might happen the year after ? but it's definitely a goal I have in my sights.

I didn't play my best in the first half but I got going in the second.

I didn't have my best game. I have a lot of room for improvement. It was a decent effort. Not too bad. It was a lot of new adjustments to make. I didn't play my best in the first half but I got going in the second.

I caught up with a lot of family. I didn't do much in Croatia. Then I went back to Australia and tried to get back on the weights. It wasn't a circus like it was here before the draft.

I'd rather have this win and not score much. Personal accolades at this time of the year don't really matter.

I'd set good screens, get him open, and that's how I would get open. We'd be tough. Hopefully, they take me. I'd be an asset for them.