This league is very humbling, it’s fragile, and just as soon as you think you’re good and you’re high on yourself, you get hit like this.

Jimmy Butler

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.

battle problem winning people

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.

best me you time

It's the heart that I play with on every single possession. And t... by Jimmy Butler

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

single possession play heart

We'll go on vacation, but we don't really care to go see Rome or anything. We just want to play dominoes. We like the fact that we can say, 'Oh, we went to Rome.' 'Well, what'd you do in Rome?' 'Played dominoes'.

see you vacation care

I play dominoes all the way until I got Bible study. And then I do Bible study. I go to the game. After the game, come home. Dinner. Dominoes until I go to sleep. I'm. Not. Joking.

game home sleep bible

I always speak my mind. Whether it be something that's going on in the world, something on the basketball court, or just something I saw with somebody else that's not right.

basketball speak mind world

I'm country at heart. I love doing normal stuff, like back in my rookie year when nobody knew who I was, and I could grab dinner and have normal conversations.

nobody dinner heart love

You get traded. It happens. It's part of the business. by Jimmy Butler

You get traded. It happens. It's part of the business.

get you business happens

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.

day game good you

My job is to go out there and play. I mean, I guess you could guess who I would rather play for. We're not going to sit here and say that that's a huge secret. I mean, whoever they decided to bring in, my job was to help them win to the best of my ability.

best job win you

I continued to play basketball the right way : shoot the ball when I'm open, attack, hit the open guy, honestly, it was a team effort.

I think the confidence my teammates and my coaches put in me, it's a lot, they really be hyping me up out there and I just go play. I try everything in my power to make sure that we win... They just trust me with everything.

We’ve gotten a lot better of knowing where the ball has to go, putting everybody in the position that they need to be in to be successful.

We got back to being who we are.

It’s part of the game, you’re not going to make shots every night. But I don’t think myself or anybody else missing shots is going to break us in any way. I think if we guard a little bit better, lock in on that side of the floor, we’ll always give ourselves a chance to win.

When the game’s on the line, we’ve got guys that step up.

You can say yeah, we learn from it, we go back to the drawing boards, i'm hoping this is the last time that this happens but I can't guarantee that.

We missed a lot of shots we normally make, myself included, i've got to be better overall.

Just some missed shots here and there, i think they did a great job. I think you just kind of leave it at that.

I don’t think so, we love playing in front of our home crowd, on our home floor, but we’ve still got to go out there and play basketball the right way — compete and do what we say we’re going to do before the game, what we say we’re going to do after the game.