Quotes by J. J. Redick - Page 2

There needs to be a dialogue between coaches, fans, players and administrators to promote positivity in the stands.
J. J. Redick /
Administrators
Coaches
Dialogue
Fans
Positivity
Promote
Stands
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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?
J. J. Redick /
Myself Mirror Look
Screw
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I feel like I'm a guy who consistently makes the right play and the right reads offensively and that helps my teammates.
J. J. Redick /
Consistently
Guy
Teammates
Helps
Reads
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Generally speaking, you want to put three or four shooters around a dominant center and have him just roll to the basket.
J. J. Redick /
Dominant
Basket
Center
Generally
Speaking
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Our job collectively, players and coaches, is to figure out a way to play that we can put ourselves in a position to win.
J. J. Redick /
Coaches
Position
Collectively
Figure
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I think it's important to have open lines of communication and I think the best lines of communication are two-way lines.
J. J. Redick /
Communication
Lines
Two-Way
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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.
J. J. Redick /
Suggestions
Vice Versa
Two-Way
Versa
Vice
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I'm not naive - I think it's rare in the NBA every day to actually be able to enjoy being around the people you're working with.
J. J. Redick /
Nba
Day People Every Day
Rare
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As I finished up my time at Duke, I certainly wasn't a 'foodie' but I was learning to enjoy the finer things in the culinary world.
J. J. Redick /
Culinary
My Time
Certainly
Duke
Finer
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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.
J. J. Redick /
Watches
Mechanical
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I don't care about starting or coming off the bench or anything like that. To me, whatever role I'm in I'm going to try to help us win.
J. J. Redick /
Don't Care
Bench
Role
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I listen to a lot of hip hop artists, and I think hip hop and poetry go hand in hand. The 'Def Jam Poetry' on HBO is just so sick to me.
J. J. Redick /
Hbo
Jam
Sick
Artists
Hand
Hip
Hop
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I don't own a watch anymore. Literally, that was an addiction. I'm not afraid to admit that. It took me over. My possessions possessed me.
J. J. Redick /
Addiction
Possessed
Admit
Afraid
Anymore
Watch
Literally
Took
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I feel like when I look back at my career I've always done better and I've always been happier when there's more expectation and more pressure.
J. J. Redick /
Pressure
Better Always Done
Expectation
Happier
Look Better Feel
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I'm a Christopher Nolan fiend. I love 'Inception,' 'Interstellar,' 'The Prestige,' 'Memento' and of course the Batman trilogy. I love all his movies.
J. J. Redick /
Inception
Memento
Nolan
Prestige
Batman
Christopher
Course
Fiend
Trilogy
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To use a phrase that I don't often use, the NBA is very much a woke league. It's at the forefront of a lot of things - training, fashion, food, diet.
J. J. Redick /
Diet
League
Nba
Training
Forefront
Phrase
Woke
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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.
J. J. Redick /
Hooked
Accidentally
Duke
Next Thing
Sandwich
Turkey
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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.
J. J. Redick /
Adventurous
Garden
Nutritionist
Eater
Yard
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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.
J. J. Redick /
Biggest
Biggest Thing
Compete
Defensive
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Obviously, you look at a situation and you say, 'What do I need to do to fit in?' I looked at the Clippers and said, 'I really need to work on my dunk shots.'
J. J. Redick /
Fit
Shots
Situation
Dunk
Looked
Obviously
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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.
J. J. Redick /
My Time
Proud
Routine
Adult
Anymore
Duke
Older
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New Orleans has an incredible culture. Everybody brings up food first, but I realized there's a lot more to that in terms of music and art and people and history.
J. J. Redick /
New Orleans
History Art Music
Orleans
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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.
J. J. Redick /
Developing
Selfish
Contained
Every Time
Grow Up
Otherwise
Screaming
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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.
J. J. Redick /
Boston
Cities
Philadelphia
Streets
Major
Sites
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I played ACC and NCAA Tournament games in my backyard - these imaginary games - and when I finally got to experience it in real life, it was better than I could imagine.
J. J. Redick /
Games
Imaginary
Ncaa
Real Life
Life Experience Better
Backyard
Finally
Tournament
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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.
J. J. Redick /
Accomplish
Steps
Yourself Your Goals
Anytime
Overlook
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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.
J. J. Redick /
Italian
Junior Year
Lottery
Senior
Senior Year
Duke
Junior
Overseas
Pick
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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.
J. J. Redick /
Court
Nba
Duke
Guys
Off
Prepare
Rookie
Spent
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I'm no dummy. So much of the NBA is just fit and situation, and I always say this, for 85 to 90 percent of the league, your performance is often dictated by your situation and your coaches.
J. J. Redick /
Coaches
Dummy
Nba
Dictated
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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.
J. J. Redick /
Issues
Not Talking
Talking
Wealth
Actual
Family World Your
Grow Up
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I like to write, I like to reflect, and not just poetry, I like to write my thoughts down. I think it's good for people who are more introspective, and it helps me get a better understanding of myself.
J. J. Redick /
Introspective
Understanding
Better Understanding
Helps
Reflect
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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.
J. J. Redick /
Whim
Tattoos
Just Kind
Organically
Planned
Spontaneously
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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.
J. J. Redick /
Athlete
Importance
Opinion
Stance
Important Issue
Issue
Likely
Looked
Recognize
Spoke
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Kind of making that leap from a team that wins occasionally to a team that wins the majority of the time, a lot of times just comes down with figuring out how tough it is to win, and then executing down the stretch to do it.
J. J. Redick /
Executing
Leap
Majority
Tough
Figuring
Occasionally
Stretch
Wins
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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?
J. J. Redick /
Norm
Phones
Scares
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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.
J. J. Redick /
Milwaukee
Runners
Shooting
Work Game Way
Ball
Shot
Catch
In-Between
Worked
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Growing up, I didn't know anyone that was a watch collector or into watches, but I was always kind of curious about them. Before the NBA Draft, I knew I was going to get drafted, and I wanted to commemorate that by buying a watch.
J. J. Redick /
Buying
Curious
Nba
Watches
Collector
Commemorate
Draft
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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.
J. J. Redick /
Right Thing
Used
Wanted
Life Mom Always
Words
Life Mom Me
Oh
Chicken
Do The Right Thing
Eagle
Exact
Her
Parents
My Life
Scraps
The Right Thing
Throughout
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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.
J. J. Redick /
Grinding
Rut
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I feel so fortunate to have great coaching. Coaches that have taught me great habits and taught me great things about basketball and life, but I've always played for coaches who have held me accountable and that's made me a better player and person.
J. J. Redick /
Basketball
Coaches
Fortunate
Great Things
Taught
Life Great Me
Life Great Better
Life Great Always
Accountable
Better Player
Habits
Held
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I hate to admit it, but anytime you're at a stoplight and your phone is within reach? You pick it up. It's become instinctual. Even if you put the phone down and walk out of the room, you're always aware of where it is. It's become an extension of you.
J. J. Redick /
Anytime
Extension
Instinctual
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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.
J. J. Redick /
Causes
Movement
One Time
Pain
Time Always Back
Anytime
Back Up
Foot
Initial
Pulled
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I think with defense especially, you have your core principles. If you do those consistently, then it's easy to make, sort of, game-to-game adjustments. But, when you're not doing your core principles consistently, you end up just guessing a lot. To be honest with you, that's what bad teams do.
J. J. Redick /
Adjustment
Consistently
Core
Defense
Guessing
Honest
Principles
Teams
To Be Honest
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I always talk about shooting being broken down into three things. You have to have some semblance of good form. The second part is repetition: doing things over and over again until you really develop a skillset. And then the third part is confidence. But for me, you can't have confidence without having that second part.
J. J. Redick /
Confidence
Broken
Form
Repetition
Semblance
Shooting
Good Always Me
Good Me Confidence
Develop
Second
Third
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As you progress as a basketball player, the world around you becomes more and more chaotic. There's more talent, there are more distractions - and these are all factors that create a lack of control. By having a routine, by having habits that I can fall back on, it's my way of enacting control. It's the only thing I can control.
J. J. Redick /
Basketball Player
Chaotic
Factors
Routine
Distractions
Habits
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I think my confidence and competitiveness - that will - comes from my mother. I always knew my mom loved me, and she always made me feel like I was - I don't want to say 'special' - but that I was capable of doing things. Before I ever shot a basketball or before I ever threw a baseball, I had confidence, and that was from my mother.
J. J. Redick /
Confidence
Baseball
Basketball
Capable
Competitiveness
Mom Always Me
Mom Mother Always
Shot
Threw
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I've never valued material things. I've always been more attached to people. The pursuit of material things takes time, and I realized my time is very valuable especially during the season. My time with my kids, what I do to take care of my body, and of course any intellectual pursuits I may have on the side. Those are all things that I value.
J. J. Redick /
All Things
Intellectual
Material Things
My Time
Pursuit
Take Care
Valuable
Attached
Material
Realized
Season
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