A biography for J. J. Redickhasn’t been written yet.
“I always talk about shooting being broken down into three things. You have to have some semblance of good form. The second part is repetition: doing things over and over again until you really develop a skillset. And then the third part is confidence. But for me, you can't have confidence without having that second part.”
“At the end of every season, I try to assess what I did well and what I didn't do well.”
“As a shooter, you always want to be in a rhythm.”
“Most of my shots are threes and long 2-point jumpers.”
“I think winning Game 7s, it's an incredible feeling.”
“I'm a Christopher Nolan fiend. I love 'Inception,' 'Interstellar,' 'The Prestige,' 'Memento' and of course the Batman trilogy. I love all his movies.”
“I always feel like you can get better in any area.”
“In terms of my career, it's been a lot of incremental improvement slowly over time.”
“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.”
“I'm no dummy. So much of the NBA is just fit and situation, and I always say this, for 85 to 90 percent of the league, your performance is often dictated by your situation and your coaches.”
“I've been on teams where you literally don't talk to each other at dinner. Just six guys on their phones.”
“Winning is really hard in this league.”
“I would much rather invest in stocks, bonds, private equity and hedge funds than watches.”
“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.”
“Nothing can prepare an 18-year-old for the fishbowl that is Duke basketball. So that was difficult.”
“It's certainly a different feel in the locker room after the game when you win.”
“You always look forward to the start of the regular season. It's like opening presents on Christmas morning.”
“At the end of every season I look in the mirror and ask myself what can I do better? Where did I screw up this year?”
“I shoot my highest percentage from the right corner, and it's also the shortest shot.”
“I'm not sure my own family liked me at Duke.”