"I finally think, when I did 'The Rookie' that things really started to bear fruit," Mr. Quaid said.
Marcus Spears and Irving Fryar, too, will tell the rookies that things got better only when they turned their lives over to Jesus.
Yet for Australian rookie Dante Exum, one thing remains the same.
It is rookie indecision, the thing that holds them back for a moment from firing a ball through a closing window in the defense or makes them recoil before responding to questions about keeping their cool in front of a heckling crowd.
(Rookies, beware: this thing cooks so fast that the first couple of times I used it, the food was overdone).
They had better know this: finding another talented receiver among a barrel of promising rookies is one thing.
But, as if to illustrate to the rookie how quickly things can change in the Ryder Cup cauldron, the match almost turned round within two holes.
"We have this rookie quarterback doing things no one has ever done before, and everyone wanted a piece of him".
