“I was 5-6, a little chubby, spot-up 3-point shooter. So I couldn't bla...” — C. J. McCollum Quote

“I was 5-6, a little chubby, spot-up 3-point shooter. So I couldn't blame the schools for not recruiting me. But then my junior year, I was 5-11, hit a little growth spurt.”

“I've been playing basketball since I was five.”

“For me, understanding your heritage and wanting to leave a legacy was always important to me.”

“I've won league championships, and I helped pull off a massive NCAA tournament upset - our 15-versus-2 win over Duke in 2012.”

“Like, if I'm assessing someone's game and they can't shoot, they can't shoot. And they know they can't shoot. It's not like I'm making fun of them. I just keep it real, man.”

“A lot of people have compared being an NBA rookie to being a fraternity pledge. It's not really intense like that. It's more like being an intern.”

“It's easy to blame other people for your own ineptitude.”

“I think, we all learned that when we are afraid it's easy to want to blame, and the people we want to blame are the people who don't look like us.”

“One of the strongest forms of rhetoric in our society is the rhetoric of blame.”

“Neither blame or praise yourself.”

“Our dad taught us not to be a loafer and a slough-off, that you don't blame somebody else for your misfortunes.”

“Sometimes when something doesn't go the way it should go, everyone blames the concept. Sometimes we screw up the way we implement it.”