C. J. McCollum Quotes

I've always been a high-percentage shooter, obviously because I'm dunking and laying the ball up.

My stats speak for themselves; I've got a good touch for a big man, I know I can find the back of the net.

I look across the league at some of these really good teams and these great players, and you give a guy that shoots 18-footers an 18-footer, he makes it every time. Every. Single. Time. You give a guy an open 3 and he makes it every single time.

I'm a guy who can score the ball and shoot the ball.

I'm a pretty good free-throw shooter, so getting fouled is a good thing.

I never gave up as a player, and I won't give up as someone who wants to go to the Hall of Fame, because it's the ultimate goal for a baseball player or a football player or a basketball player.

I love to cook like a mad man. If I could do it all over again? I would be a NBA basketball player.

I love watching Steph Curry. When he's hot, every time he gets it, I'm like, 'Shoot!'

The NBA Schedule was made up by one man, Eddie Gottlieb, who had owned the Philadelphia Warriors. Eddie had a Buddha-like body and a crinkly smile, and because he had also been an owner in baseball's old Negro leagues, he was known as the Mogul.

I'm a basketball guy. No sitcom guy. I don't care about all that jazz. I care about basketball. It's not me. And I stayed with what I did, and I'm very proud that I did that because I make a great living and I'm lucky and I get to be involved with the thing I truly love, and that's the game of basketball.

I thought I was going to be a Spur.

People talk about Kobe's 81-point game, the second-highest scoring game in NBA history. I saw the game. I don't care if it was 79, 81 - I just remember the game. I remember the moves. I remember the shots. I remember the beauty of it. The numbers? What he shot from the field? I don't care.

Kevin Durant's kind of been my favorite player my whole life, so it's going to be fun going against him in the Garden.

I need to focus on getting to the free-throw line and knocking them down in practice and getting them in the game.

I'm like LeBron, man. I'm like a smaller LeBron. That's why I'm not in the NBA. If I had about five, six more inches, I'd be in the league.

I've always been a scorer. So when I went to Arizona, I led the team in scoring both years.

I watch a lot of Dwyane Wade. D-Wade was in the Finals his third year and he was getting to the free-throw line 10 times a game.

If you give him a 3-point shot, you might as well count it. I'd rather have Steph Curry beat me 14 points and 14 assists than let him get 40. Because his 40 is just so loud. And it's because of those 3s.

I'm not a fan of analytics. When I was a kid, I couldn't tell you what percentage Allen Iverson shot, or Michael Jordan.

I grew up dreaming about being an Olympic basketball player: Doug Collins getting smashed into the stanchion, making two free throws. Phil Ford and Mike O'Koren in 1976.

Growing up, you want to make it to the NBA. That's everyone's goal.

For as long as I remember, big men have dominated the NBA.

My greatest strength is my scoring ability. I've scored the ball at every level.

Rick Barry always amazed me - he was one of the best free-throw shooters of all time, and he used to throw it underhand.

I'm living my dream, getting to play in the NBA, getting to play basketball.