J. J. Redick Quotes

J. J. Redick

Profession : Athlete

Birth : July 24, 1984

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.

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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It's certainly a different feel in the locker room after the game when you win.

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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.

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I always enjoy competition.

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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.

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

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