Quinn Cook

“Basketball is therapeutic for a lot of us. We all love, live and breathe basketball.”

“I try to keep my shoes as clean as possible and make them complement the fit.”

“My first 10-day contract in Dallas. It was long because we had five games in 10 days. Players get called up on a 10-day and their team might only have a schedule of three games. So I got to play in five games and I was fortunate for that.”

“I'm in the NBA and I won a championship. I had some great things happen, but I'm not satisfied.”

“Every phase of my life always hasn't been perfect for me. I've had to go through some adversity.”

“I'm trying to be in the best shape of my life. I'm getting stronger and more athletic to help rebound and to guard bigger opponents.”

“I like breakfast food - like three pancakes, bacon, eggs, and a smoothie. Growing up, I would be up all night and had trouble getting up. So my mom started making me a smoothie as a treat if I woke up at a certain time.”

“Yes, this is our job, but when we're having rough days and when we're going through tough times, we can all come to the gym and come to the locker room and let everything out.”

“The best players in the world are working so hard, I gotta work even harder.”

“Five guys on my high school team made the NBA.”

“I wanted to win every day, I wanted to show them every day that I was an NBA player - from shooting the ball in practice, to being there early or forming relationships - everything in my power I tried to do.”

“I knew I was an NBA player and that I just needed the right opportunity in the right situation.”

“Wherever I go, I know my dad is guiding my path.”

“I'm a guy who comes home: I'll play outside, go to this gym, that gym, see all these guys.”

“I'm a gym rat, I'm a workaholic.”

“For sure, I think that's the mission in all life, whether it's basketball, being a doctor, building a company. I think we take social justice and the lessons we're learning now, that everybody is learning.”

“At Duke, I wasn't able to score like I did in high school, just because we had so many great players, and I had to accept a role, which I was fine with, but it gave people another look at my game.”

“I've always been a point guard, so being a coach on the floor, I've had to connect with every one of my teammates and find ways to motivate them, find ways to build them up.”

“I promised my dad that I'd take care of my mom and sister, and that's exactly what I'm going to do.”

“I was fortunate to be in a great situation in Canton, be the leader of the team my rookie year. I got to show a lot of people that I was an NBA player on a nightly basis.”