J. J. Redick Quotes

J. J. Redick

Profession : Athlete

Birth : July 24, 1984

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

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With social media, I've never felt completely comfortable with it.

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

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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.

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

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

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One of the reasons that the NBA is so good is NBA Twitter.

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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?

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

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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Winning is really hard in this league.

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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.

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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.

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