A biography for J. J. Redickhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“Basketball is like the one game I can't figure out when it comes to videogames.”
“Generally speaking, you want to put three or four shooters around a dominant center and have him just roll to the basket.”
“One of the reasons that the NBA is so good is NBA Twitter.”
“I'm not into trends, but more enduring classics and styles.”
“I have this personality where I'm all in on something or I'm off of it.”
“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?”
“Some collectors do but no, I don't look at watches as an investment.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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 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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“It's always a great joy to give back.”
“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.”
“Kobe never got complacent. He always wanted more. And I think, ultimately, that's going to be his legacy.”
“To be able to give back and be able to help people, it means a lot to me. I'm humbled by it, honestly.”
“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.”