C. J. McCollum Quotes

My jump shot is the key thing. Guys go on the pick and roll and will force me to knock down shots.

LeBron's probably the best player in the world, so you just have to make it tough for him, make him take tough jump shots and things like that.

In the NBA, there is a guy guarding you, and you really have to try shooting over him.

The NBA has never drafted a player for defense. At any position, even at center.

I hate to say it's not a Laker but Michael Jordan. He's been the greatest player I've ever seen. And I'm probably a harsh judge of talent in the sense that I admire players that are really good defensive players and really good offensive players.

I would like to say I do some pretty good impressions. I'm also one of the best basketball players in the world. I just chose not to go the NBA route, but people say I'm better than Kobe and LeBron.

Going into your rookie year, whatever team does take you, and you get to camp, there's going to be a lot of talent in that gym. You're going to walk in a gym - and no matter what - there's going to be a lot of talent.

I was a good shooter in college, but it's a different level here in the NBA and I'm working on getting better.

I was one of the best players in the NBA.

I know people that was playing basketball better than me. If they were in the NBA, they could be All-Stars, those people. They just never had the opportunity to go play professional basketball in Europe.

NBA's spacing's really helped. Teams gotta really respect my jumper.

Shooting threes is always going to be what I do best.

I give everybody respect. There's nobody in the NBA who I disrespect because on any given night, you're liable to get lit up.

Really I can do everything on the court: pass, shoot, dribble, score.

If Anthony Johnson ever gets a jumper, who's going to stop him?

You have to make shots to win basketball games and we didn't do that. You also have to get back on defense, so it was a double-whammy.

If you ask the guys I played with when I was little, they'll all tell you the same thing. All I did was catch and shoot. I didn't do anything else.

I could always shoot and pass.

I believed I could play in the NBA.

There were great European players that were great basketball players that did not make it in the NBA... This is the best league in the world.

I just got to be ready to knock down shots.

I can shoot the basketball, I can get to the basket.

That's what people don't understand, that in the NBA these are the best 450 players in the world, in the game of basketball, are in the NBA.

Since I've been in the NBA, I've showed what I can do on the court.

I am very confident in my game, whether I'm shooting, driving or creating for my teammates.