Gordon Hayward

“I bought 'NBA 2K11' just to see myself. It was creepily similar and it's cool to say that you're in a video game, but I'm just not into it that much. I'm more into first-person shooters and real-time strategy games.”

“Certainly, the situation I was in with Boston, we had a lot of great players.”

“Being a professional athlete, people respect the fact that I respect eSports professional gamers.”

“Dennis Lindsey - if there's anyone who's most responsible for the winning culture in Salt Lake, it's him.”

“I hate losing more than anything. I think losing is something that drives me.”

“Ocarina of Time.' If that phrase elicits any sort of emotional reaction inside of you, then we really have something in common. When that game came out, I was just reaching the age when N64 was in its prime.”

“Any time you can say you play the sport you love for a living, it's pretty cool. You can't beat that.”

“I think sometimes with a young team, you just need to get over that initial hump to get to that next level.”

“I was on a competitive 'Halo' team, and we would enter tournaments for money.”

“Most people won't play basketball with NBA players, because you have to be in the NBA, but you don't have to be a pro to play against pro gamers. There's a chance they could load in and play the same game as them.”

“I was literally the last Jazz player left who played under Coach Sloan - and I always took that as a lot more than just some piece of trivia. That was something that truly made me feel like a part of the fabric of this franchise. And that fabric is something that has meant a lot to me, ever since.”

“I work every day on skills, and I don't think you can ever work enough on that.”

“You go through slumps. The shot feels good in practice and looks good and for whatever reason in the game, they're in and out. Sometimes it gets frustrating, but for me, I've played in the league long enough to know you just have to put in the work in practice and shoot with confidence, shoot your way out of it.”

“There's nothing like doing in-game stuff that you can't get from drills. You're guarding somebody, you're reacting, you're getting a rebound and trying to go straight back up with it.”

“Butler was like 20 minutes from my house, so I was pretty much at home. I never had my own apartment and made my own meals for myself and all that.”

“I'm a big proponent of playing all sports when you're growing up. I think they all help you from a competitiveness standpoint to a movement standpoint. Certainty with tennis, you get the lateral quickness more than anything.”

“I would say, when you're playing video games that involve competition against somebody else, you have to be able to understand what's going on and react in the fastest time possible to either - if it's a capture the flag game, capture the flag, if you're trying to take out the other team, take them out. Same thing in basketball.”

“My wife let me have one room in the house that I can do whatever I want with so I got my dual monitors set-up here and my PC and I'm good to go.”

“I lost a year in my prime of my career.”

“I'm a competitor, I just love to compete, and playing video games is a way to compete and have fun with your friends.”