J. J. Redick Quotes

Every situation I’ve been in in my career, you just sort of adapt, and figure out where you can be effective.

As late as my junior year, I was taking Italian at Duke because I thought I was going to have to go overseas and play. Then I had a great senior year and became a lottery pick.

For me, I spent four years at Duke, and I was 22 my rookie year. For a lot of guys, I was old as a rookie, but nothing could prepare me for the NBA, both on the court and off the court.

I’m very grateful to be able to give back.

I played videogames growing up, but my parents really monitored how much I was playing.

I won‘t take a shot unless I think it’s going to go in.

As a U.S. History major, there is something very cool about being in cities, and walking the streets of Philadelphia or Boston or New York and seeing historical sites.

I’ve been very fortunate to be on some great teams and in great locker rooms.

When I was at Duke, I finally had an avocado – accidentally – on a turkey sandwich. I was hooked. Next thing I know, I couldn’t get enough guacamole.

For the most part, someone who is in love with mechanical watches is not going to decide to wear a smartwatch over a mechanical watch.

It seems like you have to put so much into winning on the road and playing well on the road.

I’m very proud of my time at Duke, my career at Duke, but as you get older and become an adult, you lose some head bobs. That’s not part of the routine anymore.

I think it’s important to have open lines of communication and I think the best lines of communication are two-way lines.

I was never a very adventurous eater growing up, despite the fact that my mother is a nutritionist and my parents have always had a garden in our yard.

We’re going to have a generation of kids whose norm will be people just being addicted to their phones. And that’s what scares me. The impact on my kids, I think about that daily. Like, what is this doing to me and my family?

At the end of every season I look in the mirror and ask myself what can I do better? Where did I screw up this year?

As we grow up and we’re developing, our ego needs to be contained, otherwise we’d all be selfish two- and three-year-olds, screaming every time we didn’t get our way.

You want your kids to grow up in a world that’s better than the one you grew up in. I’m not talking about my own family’s wealth. I’m talking about the actual world and all the issues that we have.

It’s always a great joy to give back.

You always look forward to the start of the regular season. It’s like opening presents on Christmas morning.

I feel like every guy has a job to do on the defensive end, and that job can change night to night. My biggest thing is, I try to do my job, and compete.

I would never say never, but it’s not in my plans to be a coach.

Basketball is like the one game I can’t figure out when it comes to videogames.

My parents always wanted me to do the right thing. My mom, I think her exact words were, ‘You’re not a chicken in the coop playing in the scraps, you’re an eagle.’ I was like, ‘Oh, OK… ‘ But really, I’ve used that throughout my life.

My closet is my happy place.

I’ve been on teams where you literally don’t talk to each other at dinner. Just six guys on their phones.

I know when I was a kid, I looked up to athletes. So, if an athlete spoke out on an important issue, then I was probably more likely to hear that opinion and to see that stance and recognize the importance of that.

I think anytime you have any sort of injury, you know I’ve come back from a pulled hamstring in college one time, foot injuries. The movement that causes the initial jolt of pain you always kind of are tentative when you have to make that movement, especially as you kind of build back up.

Twitter has now just become a bunch of angry voices. That for me, I had to detach from there.

Player movement is good, and guys should be able to choose where they want to play.

My requirement of my fitness level is different than some players.

There’s certain points in the season – I think players go through it and teams go through it – where you just have stretches and you’re stuck in a rut or you feel like nothing’s going right. You just got to keep grinding, and eventually it’ll turn.

Tattoos are a thing I’ve never really planned out. They just kind of happen spontaneously, on a whim. It’s kind of like curating a watch collection, it just kind of happens. I like it to happen organically.

My second year was particularly difficult because I had high expectations.

Our job collectively, players and coaches, is to figure out a way to play that we can put ourselves in a position to win.

Anything I can use on the court to help me is good.

My mother is a nutritionist, so we always ate well.

As a shooter, you always want to be in a rhythm.

I didn’t like the way I shot the ball in Milwaukee, so I worked really hard on my shooting – threes off the move and off the catch. And also continued to work on my ball-handling and my in-between game – my runners and floaters.

I think the coach-player relationship is a two-way thing. You have to be willing to take suggestions as a player and vice versa.

I’m not into trends, but more enduring classics and styles.

I think anytime you have expectations for your team and for yourself and you have goals that you want to accomplish you can’t overlook the small stuff and the baby steps.

As a professional athlete, the onus is on you to take responsibility.

My second year in the league I played zip.