A biography for Jimmy Butlerhasn’t been written yet.
“I wanna be that glue guy: I want to be a guy my team and my coach can count on. That's what I want to be.”
“It's the heart that I play with on every single possession. And that's all that it is.”
“I learned 'The Star-Spangled Banner,' the national anthem. I always wanted to play it before the Bulls game, but I always thought, like, Coach would be like, 'You're not focused on the game!' So I never really asked.”
“You can't be selfish in this game. You've got to know, at the end of the day, that it's all about winning. And when you win, everybody looks good.”
“If your No. 1 priority isn't winning, and people can tell? That's the battle. Now there's a problem between people, because that guy's No. 1 priority is winning, and that guy's isn't.”
“No matter what, all I want to do is win. I don't care what anybody says, any media outlet, anybody says as a person; the one thing they can't say is that I don't want to win.”
“We'll go on vacation, but we don't really care to go see Rome or anything. We just want to play dominoes. We like the fact that we can say, 'Oh, we went to Rome.' 'Well, what'd you do in Rome?' 'Played dominoes'.”
“Young guys in this league don't understand urgency. These guys don't understand that you never know what the league brings, the times may bring. I think they do understand what it takes to win here, and they continue to learn that.”
“I don't like to lose, man. I think that's where it starts for me. If we're not winning games, then I don't smile too often.”
“Everybody's so scared to be honest with one another. If you didn't like the way I handled myself in practice, one of the players, come up to me. Somebody say something - anybody. I'm not gonna take it as offense; it's not personal.”
“You can lose. Michael Jordan lost, but that doesn't mean he wasn't the GOAT.”
“I'm a competitor; I'm in here talking - come at me. If you score on me, I'm gonna tap you on your butt. You got the best of me - but you got to do it every time.”
“It's not all fine and dandy, but a smile can go a long way. Show some love, be patient, and this world will be a much better place.”
“You get traded. It happens. It's part of the business.”
“Im from Tomball: Tomball, Texas. Its a small town on the northwest side of Houston. I dont think it's as country as people make it seem. It's actually growing. But don't go there without me, man, because they'll take your shoes and all of that.”
“For us to be a really good team, everyone has to guard.”
“My job is to go out there and play. I mean, I guess you could guess who I would rather play for. We're not going to sit here and say that that's a huge secret. I mean, whoever they decided to bring in, my job was to help them win to the best of my ability.”
“After I sign my big contract, I'm gonna make my brothers buy me dinner. They need to buy me something for a change. I think I'm gonna get me a house. That's gonna be first. Probably get some new socks. Need some socks.”
“I love music as a whole. Country music, hip-hop. I just like people being passionate with what they love to do.”
“The main thing is confidence. I'm gaining more and more confidence to do whatever I want to do on the basketball court, whether it is shooting threes or sprinting to the rim and finishing or ball handling. I'm confident enough because I have worked on it that I am going to do the exact same things in the game.”