Jae Crowder Quotes

I'm a competitive person. I love the game of basketball. I'm a gym rat.

Obviously I love playing the game of basketball. That's what God blessed me to do.

When I started out as a little kid, I didn't say 'I just want to run football.' I wanted to be a great athlete.

It's the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.

I just really love the game. I'm very hungry, and I'm looking forward to playing in the best league in the world.

The Olympics were great, because you had to make the team, and then go to the games. Now, I don't know, these guys today don't want to do anything like that.

Squash has been my life and I owe a lot to the sport.

My parents were proud of the fact that I was playing cricket, they used to ferry me around during the weekends to play the game.

I push myself to the limit to do what I most like doing, which is playing football.

It's good to be competitive when everyone wants to be in the starting line-up.

I knew I was going to be a football player; I just didn't know how. It was the only thing I was doing, the only thing that I knew. Always training, training, training, training.

I grew up playing softball, and at the age of nine, I decided I was going to be an Olympian. I didn't really know what that meant at the time. I thought it might be in a warm summer sport like softball, but I played a variety of sports growing up - basketball, soccer and track. I really didn't care. I just wanted to be an Olympian.

I have confidence in my game. I can get up and run the floor to the best of my ability, and above all, I'm going to play my hardest.

I've always worked hard at being a well-rounded player.

When I was a little kid, I looked at my mom, stepdad and said, 'I want to be an NBA player,' just because I love to play the game of basketball like 24/7.

When I started playing ball as a junior, I'm kind of glad that I was never good enough to be highly recruited.

I thought I was better at basketball, but obviously people didn't think so. But I loved them equally, whether it be baseball season, basketball, football, golf, I liked them equally.

One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.

I want to give my six hours of serious cricket on the ground and then take whatever the result.

Honestly, the only thing I loved when I was a kid was basketball. I was an athlete when I was a kid, and that was it.

I would never tell anybody to give up hockey - the great sports we have here - basketball, lacrosse - rugby coming into its own - we've got so many great team sports, and I say hold on to them.

I was a sports nut. I stayed after school probably three hours every day - from fall, to winter, to spring. I went from football to basketball to track, and it started all over again. I loved all of it. I just loved being an athlete and all that it entailed. It really accounts for who I am today and even how I think today.

But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.

I wanted to play sports my whole life. That's all I really wanted to do.

We had a great group of guys when I was there, five of us, I think. It's a great competition. Every practice was hard. I think that's helped us a lot, everybody that was there.