“My dad is easily one of my biggest inspirations to play this game. To ...” — J. R. Smith Quote

“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.”

“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.”

“To play at the Mecca of basketball and the Garden every night, it's probably the greatest decision I've ever made to go to New York.”

“I never quite understand why we watch the news. There doesn't really seem much point watching somebody tell you what the news is when you could quite easily listen to it on the radio.”

“The myth that John Locke was the philosopher behind the American Republic, is easily refuted by examining how Locke's philosophy steered Thomas Jefferson, for example.”

“Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.”