Top 97 Quotes & Sayings by Lonzo Ball
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Last updated on December 3, 2024.
People are kind of used to me shooting.
I've been good at the game of basketball my whole life, so I'm hoping I can get back to that.
I was kind of forced to rebound at a young age. I was usually at the back in the press of the 2-3 zone, because my brothers were smaller than me. So I usually got most of the rebounds.
It helps me get rebounds, I can see over the defense pretty easily, and yeah, I thank God he blessed me with height.
Every team I played for, I pretty much been the dude on it.
I know who I am. People who know me know who I am. That's all that matters.
I don't like to do a lot of talking.
I feel great in pick-and-roll.
Obviously if your head coach expects more of you, you bring it to the table.
We're competitors.
You can always work on everything.
No, I don't get nervous when I play basketball.
That's what happens when you play in L.A. Everybody expects you to do well.
NBA, that's the biggest spotlight I've ever been in before. It was crazy at first. I just had to take a step back. Get back to what I know: having fun.
It gets frustrating when you play basketball for your whole life and then it gets taken from you for a little bit.
I'm from here, so I know how it is playing in L.A. If you're winning, they love you. If not, they'll find someone else to do the job.
I've been shooting all my life.
If I'm mad or showing my frustration, the whole team's gonna be like that, techs, and people are going to go down. So I just try to keep the even keel. That's why I don't get too high or too low. I've been playing like that my whole life. It's just natural for me.
A lot of people label me as not a defender for some reason. I don't know why.
If you mention the Lakers, you think about Kobe.
I think it was tough being a young guy, especially in L.A. All the people looking at you and we had a big responsibility over there.
Everyone has talent in the league.
I can shoot.
Actually, I've always been kind of a leader, and it's kind of just stuck with me throughout my whole career.
With all the pick-and-rolls in the NBA, getting in the lane and shooting floaters or pull-ups will help a lot.
If you want to be a good shooter, you've got to shoot.
The way I play, I like to be free.
When I play the game, I play to win.
I want to be M.V.P. one day. But for me, it's all about championships.
There's no off nights. When you think it's an off night, it's not.
Obviously you have LeBron, the best player in the world, all the attention is on him. A lot of the wins and losses are targeted towards him.
In Chino Hills, everybody is cool with everybody, so I had a lot of friends. My house was kind of the hang out house, where everybody would come over.
Getting on fast-breaks, you don't do that when you let a team shoot 20 free throws in one quarter.
My dad had me start lifting weights at 12, and for me it was fun.
I played guard my whole life, and liked having the ball in my hands.
I just live in the moment.
Magic Johnson is one of the greatest players to ever play... he's the best point guard to ever play, so I can learn a lot of things from him.
I feel like my game is more like LeBron's than Kobe's, so that's why I think I gravitated toward his game more.
Melo has a chance to be a better player than me, for sure. I feel at the same age, he's better than me. In real time, I don't think he's better than me. But I'm the big brother so I'm always going to have that edge over him.
Playing defense out here against grown men is physical.
Man, at the end of the day, it's just a game. And the way I look at it, when I have fun, that's when I play my best basketball.
I chose to go to CAA. I think me becoming my own man is going to make it easier, honestly.
Team player, man. It's not just me out there. All five guys got to contribute, and whoever comes in has to do the same.
Well, everybody's human, and you're not going to do the right thing perfectly every time. But you mess up and you learn from it and you go on from there.
I think you're either born a leader or you're not.
I know there are a lot of kids who aren't lucky enough to have a father figure in their lives. That's a really tough obstacle to overcome.
If you have one guy taking all of the shots, you're obviously not playing very fast, because you have to slow it down and wait for him to get to his spot in the offense. But when you just want the best shot possible, a lot of different people are going to get the ball.
I was just taught, the team goes how the point guard goes.
It's my life, it's up to me what I want to do with it. And I'm realizing that.
Obviously, I want to be an All-Star.
My family's always going to be close.
When it comes down to the last five minutes, it's not about Xs and Os. It's pretty much who wants it more.
I think I can score. But personally, I like to pass first, because people love people who pass. And I'm a point guard, so my job is to kind of get people open.
I played baseball too, and flag football, but basketball was the easiest for me. Then when I was 12, my dad asked me what I wanted to do, and I said 'Be an NBA player.' Since then, he started training me.
My family's always going to be together.
A lot of things are going to happen that you can't necessarily control all the time, but you can control what you do after it happens. So that's what I try to do, keep my head up, keep moving forward, stay positive and just work hard.
It starts the fast-break a lot easier when I get the ball. I don't have to wait for big men to give me it. Just get it and go.
It is a team game, we all play for each other; obviously we win and lose as a team, but I like to take the blame when we lose.
Growing up, a lot of my shots came off of me dribbling and shooting it.
No. 2 pick, you're supposed to do a job - you're supposed to turn the franchise around. And I don't think I did it to the best of my abilities. I didn't live up to that standard.
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