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" Everything I do is for my parents and my family. The car is nice, the house is nice, but none of this matters without them. If it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be here. I don't know where I would be, honestly. "

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J. R. Smith

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" I think just having everybody know who you are is more of a challenge. More than anything about it is just knowing people are watching. I know who I am, so it's watching things I say, what I do. Even if I'm in line at one of the rest stops or something, it's just being on my Ps and Qs at all times more than anything. "

" I've had mental errors before while not shooting the ball well and while shooting the ball well, and vice versa. So I can't compound one on top of the other. It's just a matter of getting out of the groove of shooting bad and just staying more locked in. "

" Building stuff. Lifting blocks. That's how I got stronger. I never lifted weights. I just did masonry work with my pops. "

" Trying to think about the rest of the team over myself or my scoring is something that I never really had to do before. "

" I went to Moses Malone's golf tournament in Houston, and I've been hooked ever since. "

" I've been playing this game, fortunately for me, since I was three years old. That's one of the reasons why this game is so special to me. "

J. R. Smith

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" You never know when your future wife might be in the stands. "

" It's difficult losing, but it's even more difficult when you didn't make a shot. I could see the ball just didn't go your way on an out-of-bounds play or something like that, but when you're just not making them, it's frustrating. "

" My parents, my family, that's the biggest inspiration in my life. I've been in a lot of dark spots in my life, and if it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be able to get out of it, but they are who they are. They followed me. They yelled at me. They screamed at me. They loved me. "

" I know a lot of people don't have their parents in their life - their mother, their father - but I've got the best two you could ask for, I swear. "

" My dad is easily one of my biggest inspirations to play this game. To hear people talk bad about me, it hurt me because I know it hurts him, and that's not who I am. I know he raised better, and I know I want to do better. "

" My family is always my priority. "

" China was the worst place I've ever been in my life. "

" That three-foot putt is tough for me right now! I'm not making too many putts. "

" I'm good friends with Lee Westwood. Bubba, Rickie Fowler. A few of the top hitters. "

" When you're in New York, there's women galore. At the end of the day, when I'm by myself or even, at times, when there was a woman next to me, I was feeling alone. It was not the same as it is with my wife. The experience is not the same; the time is not the same. "

" My iron game. I get into trouble a lot with my driver, so I tend to hit 3-wood off the tee. "

" My teammates tell me to shoot the ball when I'm open. I feel like I'm open most of the time, so I shoot it. "

J. R. Smith

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" Everything I do is for my parents, None of this matters without them. If it weren't for them, I wouldn't be here... If it wasn't for them, if it wasn't for the structure and the backbone that I have, I wouldn't be able to mess up and keep coming back and sit in front of you as a world champion. "

" Like, I'll wear a bright sweater with pants that are a more classic color. "

" I used to, in the summertime, spend so much money doing a lot of fun stuff. Now, I'm actually consciously trying to save so we can live how we want to live after basketball. I've even sold a few things. "

" 'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.' "

J. R. Smith

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" I've gone on streaks where I haven't shot the ball well here, but I was always making up for it in other areas, so it wasn't as big. It's just a part of the game. I got to do better with it. "