Top 40 Jae Crowder Quotes

It’s always good to feel the love from the fans and see familiar faces.

I think it makes the game much easier to play once you have a good cohesion off the court. I think that’s big because you come into a locker room at the NBA level, there’s so much emotion, so much pride in the locker room.

It’s all a desire to win – to win the next game, to win the next practice, to win the next day.

When your dad is your father, best friend and mentor, all in one, it’s hard to explain what he brings. He brings confidence and self-awareness through my game, on and off the court. I’m blessed to have him.

I enjoy being held accountable, I enjoy holding my teammates accountable and being someone that my teammates can depend on.

Obviously, I don’t want to leave Boston. Obviously, I love it here. Obviously, the fans have treated me great. No doubt about that.

The most important part for me is mentally. Physically, I know I’m going to put the work in. That’s not even a question. But mentally you may have some days where it’s tougher.

Take care of your muscles and they’ll hold up.

I just like to win. No hard feelings, I’ll still go eat lunch with you after, but I’ll kick your butt and then have lunch with you. That’s the kind of competitor I am.

People back home – my dad is from where I’m from, so to separate us two – you don’t want to call both of us Corey, so everybody started calling me Jae.

My ultimate goal, really, is to win a championship. That’s my ultimate goal no matter the statistics or how I do it or what numbers I put up in the box score.

It’s always good to have my dad there to support me. I know he’s watching every game when he’s at home. But when he’s in the stands it’s a great feeling.

I’m naturally fired up. I’m naturally excited to play each and every time I lace the shoes up.

And I’ve always been able to play basketball at the highest level, and been able to play a significant role on the team I’ve been traded to.

I don’t like losing, man.

When you want to win, man, when you’re in a winning organization, you take pride in it. And when you lose, you let everybody know you lost. You’re not walking around happy.

I just want to continue to put my best foot forward and give it all I got.

I make $7 million per year. I’m not going to be mad at a guy making $10 million. We’re still millionaires.

Just to get out, put it out on the line each and every night is a great feeling for a basketball player.

The best fitness and training advice has to be: Listen to your body.

I’m an emotional player.

What I can control is me playing basketball and how I treat my family and how I raise my child in the time that I have to spend on this earth. You know what I mean? I can’t control what happens with trades.

A lot of people say Michael Jordan and all of that. But Magic Johnson and my dad were my role models.

I don’t throw it away because people don’t think it’s real. But it’s really my hair. I keep it every time I cut it.

My dad does a good job of reminding me where I came from.

You realize there are things you can’t control. You can’t control a lot of the stuff that happens in your life.

LeBron always tells me to shoot the ball. Don’t worry about stats, don’t worry about percentages. ‘We know what you can do, just shoot the ball and be comfortable.’

There were good and bad times, but through all of the times I just kept working, and kept being in the gym, and kept believing in myself. And it all paid off.

I feel like I can be one of the top defenders in the league and that’s what I’m going to try to be.

I had to buy into being a better player and being able to be coached.

I look at it like this, this is what keeps me going: You see a lot of guys who are being traded and they get waived once they get to the team. That’s never happened in my career. So once I’ve gotten traded, I’ve been able to sustain a role. I’ve been wanted.

Me personally, I took out bread and I took out grease foods.

I’m going to stay in the gym, stay watching film, stay focused, stay being an all around professional.

I play everything but point guard.

I didn’t want to be part of a tanking team. I just wanted to win and just work to be a good team.

I’ll dive on loose balls. I’ll get the winning rebound, hit the winning shot. I’ll do whatever it takes to win a game.

I was the National Juco Player of the Year, so I thought I was a big shot.

It’s a business with the coaches. It’s a business with the front office. So I don’t get too tied up if I’m appreciated by them. Because at the end of the day, my teammates are who I play for.

I just wanted to give myself a chance to be an athlete because I really loved the game of basketball.

It’s a scary thing when a team don’t know who to match up to, whose night it’s going to be on the offensive end.