Top 99 Quotes & Sayings by Lou Williams
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American athlete Lou Williams.
Last updated on December 24, 2024.
I always said if I had a son, I was going to give him a unique name.
I try to be the best old head I can be.
It doesn't really matter to me whether you start or not. I play a lot of fourth quarters. I think that's what's most important to me. I think that's what I've always cared about, just having an opportunity to finish games when it's really winning time.
I'd never seen my father stand up. As far as I can remember, my father was always in a wheelchair. I always remembered that. And I remember my first basketball game, ever, he rolls into the gym, he stays by the door and he watches me play. And that was the only game he ever saw me play because he passed away shortly after that.
The Rockets paid a healthy price for Chris Paul.
I thought I was pretty average height. And then it just clicked to me - 'Yo, you're undersized.' I guess when I got older and my body started hurting, I'm like, 'I'm not as big as I thought I was.' So I always played with the mentality that I was bigger than I actually was.
Every time I'd ever stepped on a basketball court, AAU, middle school, high school, I always thought about the NBA.
I think as competitors, that's why we get into this, to gain respect from the guys who have played the game, and you walk away and they say, 'He was a tough cover - that dude was nice.'
When I got traded to the Raptors Kyle Lowry told me, 'We expect you to average 15 points a game off the bench.' And I said, 'Perfect, so you need me here.' And that made me feel wanted. So once he put that expectation on me, it just made everything fall into place.
What AI was able to do at his size, with the teams that he had was remarkable, you can't take that from him.
Once you're there, you'll love playing for the Raptors and love playing for the country, but by the fourth or fifth month into the season, you're just like damn man, I wanna go home.
I don't like idle time.
I didn't even care where I was drafted.
I'm an Atlanta guy. I think Philly knows that. But I've adopted Philly as my second home, and they've embraced me.
I can't shoot straight-up. I've always played crooked. One of my coaches says I play backwards. I do everything backwards. I don't have coordination. It's weird to watch me play.
Every 10 years the game changes.
A.I. didn't ask me to do a bunch of stuff for him. He just wanted me around. Usually we were at the Friday's in Philly, which he should have bought, because he was there so much.
If you look at the history of the NBA, guys that came out of high school are the guys that held the NBA together. You look a Kobe Bryant, you look at a LeBron, these are household names.
It's one of those things I have been able to do - play well with my teammates and getting others involved.
I like to lead by example. I like to lead by my actions.
A lot of guys ask me, 'Why did you go straight from high school to the NBA?' So I ask them, 'If you had the opportunity to take your dream job at 17- or 18-years-old, would you do it?'
I'm not going to be the guy that says, 'I'm the new point guard, look at me, look at me, put me on billboards and sell my jersey.' I'm not going to be him. I'm going to do my job.
You know what, Kawhi talks the most in our group chat. The dude is a leader.
When people treat you well, you just want to transfer it back over.
Some guys like to eat two or three different times a day before the game. I eat once, and that's it.
In the summertime you'll find me back home in Atlanta, in the gym playing against whoever walks in that day.
I want a real opportunity to win a championship.
Greatness is contagious.
Never give up. That's my Clippers story, never give up.
I always thought I was a good shooter.
I always have these debates with my friends, I was like 'can you imagine dropping LeBron in '75?' and I was like 'bro he'd win 15 championships in a row.'
I'm just a baller. This is something I love to do and was probably born to do.
You have all the ambition of winning a championship and competing in your hometown. For me, it didn't work out that way.
In the NBA they've taken away so much of the hand-checking and the physicality of how guys are able to guard you. So if you touch me, I'm gonna throw the ball toward the rim and get shots.
If you think that I got to come off the bench, then I am going to put you in a position to try to prove you wrong. Then after a while, it was kind of fun, and over the years it was my makeup.
I've always been kind of a fourth-quarter guy.
Sometimes I just think we get caught up in the entertainment aspect of this business and people kind of forget that this is the way we feed our families and this is our livelihoods.
When you play in Toronto you feel like you're playing overseas. We can't wait to go on the road sometimes just to be in America.
A guy tried to rob me but decided not to because of whatever I do in the community. He's a Lou Williams fan, so he didn't rob me.
I was raised in a musical house. Marvin Gaye. Boyz II Men. Jodeci. My mom always played that Toni Braxton song, 'Un-Break My Heart.' When I hear that song, it still puts me right back in the car with her.
Coming off the bench was an adjustment for me.
Obviously, Ray Allen is a huge threat, Eddie House coming off the bench is a huge threat, as far as three-pointers go.
I'm conscious of my turnovers.
Any time you make a basketball team you have the opportunity to be successful.
I don't sleep much. I think it's hereditary. My mom doesn't sleep. My dad never slept. My naps are definitely when I get the most sleep. I'm a big napper - that's when I get most of my sleep.
I've always had jewelry over the years, but when it comes to clothes, I'm just a white or black Polo tee guy with some jeans and a pair of Jordans, and I'm cool. As long as I'm comfortable, I'm cool.
If you hit me, I'm gonna try to shoot the ball and get two free throws.
If a guy is not serious about being a student-athlete then why force him into the college system. He's not serious about getting education.
There's crime everywhere.
You can go to war at 18, so you should be able to make a living at 18, especially if college isn't what you see for yourself.
I'm a creature of habit. I don't really like change.
The structure of college basketball never made sense to me. The coach is the star and you get up at 5:30 A.M. to run before class. That was never appealing to me.
I played varsity in high school as a 9th grader. I came off the bench during the first game of the season and had 25 points. Well, I became a starter after that and in the second game I scored 53 points.
I'm not a flopper. I hate when people say I'm a flopper. I don't flop. You never see me flying all over the floor. None of that. I barely fall down in games.
I've always been friends with guys who are 6, 7 years older than me.
I realize the responsibility of being a starting point guard.
A lot of the stories I got on A.I., I can't say publicly. Overall, I just really appreciated how he went about going into games. He got a lot of flak for the 'practice' comment, but every game, he gave it his all.
I've always had a maturity level different than guys my age.
I don't make a decision till I see fit. That's why I'm so effective. My mind isn't predetermined.
I wanted to prove that I could be a starter. And then once I realized I was gonna be a sixth man and it wasn't gonna change, I just relished the role. I just said, 'I'm going to make it really hard on whoever it is that has to guard me these next 10-11 minutes that I'm in here.' And after a while you just create an identity.
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