Quotes from Jimmy Butler

People don't work as hard as I do. They don't expect the same things out of the game that I do.

You can't be selfish in this game. You've got to know, at the end of the day, that it's all about winning. And when you win, everybody looks good.

There's a lot of people that think I'm a terrible basketball player, so it's just gonna piss me off. And if it's people who think I'm good, I'll be happy. I'm just not gonna read it at all and stay content in my own mind.

I've become a much better player, so I feel like my voice is heard and taken for what it's worth a little bit more.

I don't like the phrase 'face of the franchise.' I just want to be a part of it. I think we have a really good team. When we start winning games, it looks a lot better.

I built a fort when I was little, with pillows and blankets.

I wanna be that glue guy: I want to be a guy my team and my coach can count on. That's what I want to be.

I just wanna hoop and be out there with my soldiers. Go to war. Try to, to the best of my abilities, help us win.

We say it every year: we are confident; we think we can win a championship, yadda, yadda, yadda. You have all heard it before. But we have to go out there and do it.

Every time my name is called, I get so many cheers, standing ovations, and a lot of hands are being clapped.

You ask what position I play, I say point guard.

As a player, you look where I've come from, averaging 'X' amount of points, to where I am now, an All-Star.

I still sing, because that's my true calling. This basketball thing is only for, what, I think another year or so. And then I think I'm gonna switch over to my singing career.

Music is my way of taking my mind away from the game. When I'm singing, you don't got anything to worry about. Don't gotta worry about scoring however many points or winning the game. No matter how good or how bad you are, it's fun.

A lot of guys are offensive minded, which is good at some points and times but bad at others - at lots of others. I wish I could say I want everybody to play defense as hard as I do. It's not a reality.

It's the heart that I play with on every single possession. And that's all that it is.

I play really hard. I put my body on the line every damn practice. Every day in the games. That's my passion. That's how I give to the game.

I loved the city of Chicago, and I love the Reinsdorfs. I'm forever grateful for them in taking a chance on me, allowing me to become the player that I am today. It's still incredible to me that I got to hoop in a Bulls jersey.

Defense is all about if you want to play or not, if you really take matchups personal. A lot of guys don't. Once again, that's the league that we're in. That's not the league that used to be.

If you think you can sing, you can sing; that's all that matters. So I'm always singing around my guys, around the team, during warm-ups, because I think people need to hear this voice. I think they deserve it.

I'm a competitor; I'm in here talking - come at me. If you score on me, I'm gonna tap you on your butt. You got the best of me - but you got to do it every time.

If your No. 1 priority isn't winning, and people can tell? That's the battle. Now there's a problem between people, because that guy's No. 1 priority is winning, and that guy's isn't.

I think we're all pros. If we go out there and just play basketball the right way, everything is gonna work itself out.

I love the game, and I don't do it for any other reason except to compete and go up against the best and try to prove I can hang. All my emotion came out at one time.