Rookies Quotes

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.

Halas didn`t believe in starting rookies.

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,

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.

I tell all the rookies that come into our series and all the young drivers they can come ask me anything at any time, and we`ll give them the straight shoot.

Rookies are also coming in from college programs as big stars, whereas when we came in, we were just happy to be there. We were happy to be playing in a big gym, to be on television, to be playing in America.

(It is not a comfort zone; as Chris Read and Graham Thorpe discovered, players do get dropped. But rookies get a run first and changes are usually made with a view to the long term. The team have thus been able to grow together and bond. The side Giles came into was a wary one with some players playing primarily for themselves, an inevitable consequence of chop-and-change team selection. Now they are a team.) It`s a completely different atmosphere to `98, ... It`s much more professional and we are much more together. I found it quite tricky in `98. No disrespect to anyone in that side, because players made me feel welcome, but it was very disjointed. Now we are basically another county team. We know each other that well. We`ve played that much cricket together.