Top 66 J. J. Redick Quotes

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

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.

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.

Would I want to get traded again midseason? Hopefully, never.

I feel like I’ve been mentoring young guys for a long time.

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 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.

To be able to give back and be able to help people, it means a lot to me. I’m humbled by it, honestly.

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

Winning is really hard in this league.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

I have this personality where I’m all in on something or I’m off of it.

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

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.

My thing is just trying to figure out how we can win ball games.

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.

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

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

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.

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 think I can pass the ball pretty well and I move the ball.

I always enjoy competition.

I’m not sure my own family liked me at Duke.

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.

When I come to the arena, my mind is on basketball, not thinking I’m walking a runway.

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

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

For me, I can only talk so much about basketball, and I get a little bored.

In terms of my career, it’s been a lot of incremental improvement slowly over time.

My last four years in Orlando, I was a really good player but I wasn’t a full-time starter.

It’s always a great joy to give back.

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

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.

I always feel like you can get better in any area.

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?

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.

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

Most of my shots are threes and long 2-point jumpers.

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.’

I would much rather invest in stocks, bonds, private equity and hedge funds than watches.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

My closet is my happy place.

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.

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.

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.

When I got done at Duke, I almost felt ashamed of it. I almost tried to distance myself from being the Duke guy.

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

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

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.

At the end of every season, I try to assess what I did well and what I didn’t do well.

Nutrition is a big part of my life and it always has been.

I shoot my highest percentage from the right corner, and it’s also the shortest shot.

I watch video now of me in college, and I just think, What are you doing, man?

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.