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I think one thing I had going for me that a lot of rookies didn't is that we played 15, 16 games every year in college.

I did some good things as a rookie.

I'm trying to be a sponge. People say, 'Well, that's what your rookie year is.' I still feel that way in my second year.

It actually took me a year to learn how to play running back - to understand what they were doing defensively and then what our guys were doing every single play.

My rookie year, I was very immature.

Sometimes you surf well and still don't win. It happens to everyone. You learn that one big score doesn't mean much if you don't have a backup. I guess every rookie learns that as time goes by. I took some big lessons from my losses.

I just felt like reflecting on my junior year, when I didn't know what I was doing, I left a lot of stuff out there. Actually, I gained close to 700 yards more and I took myself out of a lot of games.

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.

I had a great time with baseball growing up. I was lucky to grow up with it and to learn.

Last four months were great for me, was probably one of the best four months of my career, playing unbelievable in the clay court season.