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  • Basketball Player
  • born 1985
  • 57 quotes

J. R. Smith, Basketball Player (born 1985), is quoted 57 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Worried, Balls, Worst and Sweater.

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My family is always my priority.

I'm not worried about Instagram.

I like Public School and En Noir.

My motto is, 'When in doubt, shoot the ball'.

China was the worst place I've ever been in my life.

You never know when your future wife might be in the stands.

Like, I'll wear a bright sweater with pants that are a more classic color.

Who? Who is that? (J.R.'s response when asked about opponent Jason Terry.)

That three-foot putt is tough for me right now! I'm not making too many putts.

I'm good friends with Lee Westwood. Bubba, Rickie Fowler. A few of the top hitters.

I went to Moses Malone's golf tournament in Houston, and I've been hooked ever since.

Being down 3-1 [in the Finals] was the worst feeling I've ever experienced in my life.

My iron game. I get into trouble a lot with my driver, so I tend to hit 3-wood off the tee.

I love running the floor and doing crazy dunks. I think I bring a lot of enthusiasm to the team.

Every person that's in the NBA should experience playing in New York at least once in their career.

I was actually worried about David Ross safety being in Cleveland. I thought I had to be a bodyguard.

'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'

Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.

I'd rather take a contested shot than an open shot any day ... It's kind of boring when you take open shots

My teammates tell me to shoot the ball when I'm open. I feel like I'm open most of the time, so I shoot it.

I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.

When I first came into the league, I followed my parents for everything. Now, I'm really doing stuff on my own.

I like to get physical on defense. I like to get up on a guy as much as possible. I actually need to calm down, though.

Trying to think about the rest of the team over myself or my scoring is something that I never really had to do before.

Building stuff. Lifting blocks. That's how I got stronger. I never lifted weights. I just did masonry work with my pops.

I definitely want to come back to Cleveland. The coaches, the team, everything about the situation, it's perfect for me.

[People asked me] "Where is your million-dollar shirt?" I'm like, "It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on."

To play at the Mecca of basketball and the Garden every night, it's probably the greatest decision I've ever made to go to New York.

I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.

I've been playing this game, fortunately for me, since I was three years old. That's one of the reasons why this game is so special to me.

The reality is I'm kind of like an ocean. Everything is calm, calm, calm. I'm good. When the ball goes up in the air, the waves start rocking.

Don't get in arguments with your coaches. If you have a certain opinion, express it to the best of your ability. But don't get on his bad side.

I know a lot of people don't have their parents in their life - their mother, their father - but I've got the best two you could ask for, I swear.

There's six of us, and they didn't treat any of us different. They loved us the same. They treated us all the same, and I just want to be like them when I grow up.

Winning is obviously the biggest thing. Because if you don't win, nothing really matters. You can have all the money in the world, and they can still call you a loser.

When I grew up, I never - I wasn't allowed to go out. I missed my prom because I went to an AAU tournament and all that stuff. For me, it was basketball, basketball, basketball.

I've gone on streaks where I haven't shot the ball well here, but I was always making up for it in other areas, so it wasn't as big. It's just a part of the game. I got to do better with it.

I can't even go down to the park anymore back home in Newark, New Jersey because my homeboys won't let me play. They tell me I'm too big time, too Hollywood, so they won't let me play out there no more.

I used to, in the summertime, spend so much money doing a lot of fun stuff. Now, I'm actually consciously trying to save so we can live how we want to live after basketball. I've even sold a few things.

Everything I do is for my parents and my family. The car is nice, the house is nice, but none of this matters without them. If it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be here. I don't know where I would be, honestly.

Coach Lue always amazed me. I'm like, 'How do you have this much joy coming out of life? You have money, but you don't drink; you don't smoke. All you do is hoop, and you live on a natural high.' But now I know.

I'm not upset about my career; I'm just upset about how my name has been portrayed. A lot of guys have played with Bron and had success. There's nothing I can do about it. I've tried to change my image a million times.

My dad is easily one of my biggest inspirations to play this game. To hear people talk bad about me, it hurt me because I know it hurts him, and that's not who I am. I know he raised better, and I know I want to do better.

It's difficult losing, but it's even more difficult when you didn't make a shot. I could see the ball just didn't go your way on an out-of-bounds play or something like that, but when you're just not making them, it's frustrating.

My looks vary, but I definitely think about it and plan. I like to shop, too, so I'm always mixing it up. But normally, I'll be wearing something like a college T-shirt and a sweater, something like that. But I definitely have to plan.

I'm into the whole American and New York vibe, not just because that's what's going on around me but because of the fit. A lot of guys are into the European cut, but I can't really pull that off with my body type - I'm tall and have big legs.

Whenever someone says something bad about you, just confront them on it and just be a man and own up to it. If you said something you shouldn t have said, and it's important to somebody you need to talk to, you need to go talk to them. Be a man. Step up.

I've had mental errors before while not shooting the ball well and while shooting the ball well, and vice versa. So I can't compound one on top of the other. It's just a matter of getting out of the groove of shooting bad and just staying more locked in.

When you're in New York, there's women galore. At the end of the day, when I'm by myself or even, at times, when there was a woman next to me, I was feeling alone. It was not the same as it is with my wife. The experience is not the same; the time is not the same.

Being down 3-1 [in the Finals] was the worst feeling I've ever experienced in my life. I didn't want to talk to my teammates, I didn't want to talk to my wife, I didn't want to talk to my kids. And to come back from that is a lesson that you can come back from anything.

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