Jae Crowder Quotes

The important thing is to be around people who will make you a better player. Otherwise, you can remain average.

For me, dropping down to League One and then getting into the Championship with Huddersfield was the right pathway. It was one where I knew I had to learn, I had to get better if I wanted to get any higher and I think that mentality's helped me.

From an early age, I tried to take in all the instructions of all the coaches I had.

I really want to make myself a better player.

I've been lucky to have great coaching, great teammates, and a desire to keep getting better. That, slowly over time, helped me grow from an average high school player to the NBA.

Mourinho helped me grow. He taught me to be patient, to keep fighting, and to respect the coach's decisions. He helped me mature and turned me into a man.

I was never the best player in the teams I played for. I always needed time for development.

I just want to learn and try to be the best player I can be.

Since I'm a professional, every day I try to become a better player.

As players, you've got to keep improving, keep learning, keep playing well to get your place in the team.

Playing all these different sports, you learn so much from the people you get coached by.

I'm going to come in and learn and be the best player I can be on the court as well as off the court.

I enjoyed practices at college. That is where you really get down and dirty and really get some development and see what you have.

As a young player, the more games you play and the more you work every day with good players, of course you will improve.

This whole thing's about development. Not only are we trying to develop players, we're trying to develop ourselves.

The more you practice and study, the better you are... so I still practice and study all the time.

My job now is to work hard and learn all I can.

You know over 20 years I played for a number of managers and dozens of coaches. I don't know any of them that I didn't learn something from to help make me a better player.

I'm going to go out there and work hard. I'm going to get better, I'm going to learn from my mistakes and I'm going to be there when my team needs me.

Nobody teaches you to be a father. Nobody teaches you to be a husband. Nobody teaches you how to be a star. You have to learn to work with the tools.

Training has been such a huge part of my life and career I hope to keep going with it.

The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from several different coaches. The first one taught him the fundamentals; the second one instilled discipline in him and taught him more of the techniques that must be mastered to excel.

The reason I became a better player was because I came to Philly.

The best part of learning any profession, when you're really going through those huge stretching escalated times of learning and energy, is when you want to do it so much.

You cheat yourself when you don't do what it is you're supposed to do. You have an obligation to learn everything that you can.