I'm way more comfortable off the dribble, shooting the ball of the dribble, making a play off the dribble.
Jae Crowder
I think with the whole revenue deal, everybody from top to bottom probably gets impacted by it. It's just a different era of basketball now with contracts and money. Teams being able to max out players as much as they can, that helps a team stack their team like Golden State.
I've never had any problem with race in Boston, so I don't even want to talk about that. I never said anything about race.
The best fitness and training advice has to be: Listen to your body.
I'm naturally fired up. I'm naturally excited to play each and every time I lace the shoes up.
I watch basketball. I got League Pass, so I watch a lot of basketball. Each and every night I watch basketball, so I keep up with the whole league.
I play this game to win. I never in my life played to lose. I don't know what that feels like. I don't play like that.
It's always good to feel the love from the fans and see familiar faces.
When you've got so many guys that can score the ball, you really don't want to get down and defend. You really don't want to get down and dive for balls. You really don't want to fight through screens every play.
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.
Year 6 was the toughest one yet for me. That was the first time in my life I couldn't put my whole heart into basketball.
Take care of your muscles and they'll hold up.
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.'
I never would have thought this would happen, me playing for Utah. It's like coming around full circle for me and my family. We love it, we embrace it.
Me personally, I took out bread and I took out grease foods.
Just to get out, put it out on the line each and every night is a great feeling for a basketball player.
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.
A lot of people say Michael Jordan and all of that. But Magic Johnson and my dad were my role models.
I make $7 million per year. I'm not going to be mad at a guy making $10 million. We're still millionaires.
I think the league is going to be changing because there's so much money that teams have. And they can spend so much.
I just wanted to give myself a chance to be an athlete because I really loved the game of basketball.
I enjoy being held accountable, I enjoy holding my teammates accountable and being someone that my teammates can depend on.
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.
My dad does a good job of reminding me where I came from.
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.
Dallas was top-notch professional and they wanted to win every game.
I don't like losing, man.
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.
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.
Whenever I'm on the court, I just want to do whatever I can to help my teammates win the game.
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.
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.
When you're tired, it doesn't mean go harder. It means take care of your body.
At times, you get going and you think you need to work, work, work, and your body is going to get fatigued at some point.
You kick it up a notch when you work out.
I drink water. I don't drink any caffeine drinks. I stay away from all the sweet drinks and drink water as much as possible.
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.
It's all a desire to win - to win the next game, to win the next practice, to win the next day.
That's all it's about with me: winning.
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 never put a ceiling on myself, I never put a ceiling on my teammates or my team.
Boston fans are pretty tough.
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.
I just want to continue to build mentally to push forward even on the good days and bad days.
I just want to continue to put my best foot forward and give it all I got.
I'm going to stay in the gym, stay watching film, stay focused, stay being an all around professional.
You realize there are things you can't control. You can't control a lot of the stuff that happens in your life.
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.
I had to buy into being a better player and being able to be coached.
I was the National Juco Player of the Year, so I thought I was a big shot.
