Top 50 Lou Williams Quotes

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’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.

Whenever I’m out on the basketball court, I lace up and just hoop. Whether it’s in summertime, at practice, in the games, playoffs, every time I step out on the basketball court, I approach it the same way.

I was raised in the NBA. I’ve seen some guys stay and I’ve seen a lot go. I’ve watched James Harden be a rival of mine for Sixth Man of the Year to an MVP candidate.

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 realize the responsibility of being a starting point guard.

Some guys like to eat two or three different times a day before the game. I eat once, and that’s it.

Every time I’d ever stepped on a basketball court, AAU, middle school, high school, I always thought about the NBA.

There’s crime everywhere.

Kobe Bryant is a walking stat himself. He doesn’t have to explain what he brings to the table.

I wouldn’t call myself a real point guard.

It’s not an easy thing to be in this league 10 years. Especially with me being a second-round pick, the 46th pick, and an undersized guard, to carve a lane for myself and have a career, for my family to realize that and appreciate that, it meant a lot to me.

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 always said if I had a son, I was going to give him a unique name.

Playoff basketball isn’t about who scores, stats or putting numbers up on the board. It’s just about winning at the end of the day. When you play a game in a series, it becomes chess. It becomes who can outsmart the other team.

I try to be the best old head I can be.

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.

I’m a creature of habit. I don’t really like change.

I love hooping. I love competing.

Any time I can play basketball I enjoy being out on the court.

I want a real opportunity to win a championship.

Every 10 years the game changes.

I’ve always been kind of a fourth-quarter guy.

I’m just a baller. This is something I love to do and was probably born to do.

I think in Toronto my job was to score just based on the system that we had. We played a lot of iso basketball – a lot of one-on-one basketball.

I don’t make a decision till I see fit. That’s why I’m so effective. My mind isn’t predetermined.

It’s one of those things I have been able to do – play well with my teammates and getting others involved.

I would love to start if a coach considered me as a starter.

When people treat you well, you just want to transfer it back over.

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?’

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.

In the summertime you’ll find me back home in Atlanta, in the gym playing against whoever walks in that day.

I don’t like idle time.

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.

Repetitions – I think that’s one of the best ways during the season to maintain something or get better at it, is just to do it over and over.

I’ve never been a follower, but I’ve been an admirer.

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.’

I didn’t even care where I was drafted.

This is the NBA, anybody can beat anybody.

Coming off the bench was an adjustment for me.

I watched myself get drafted by myself. I walked out of my own draft party because I was a little frustrated.

You have all the ambition of winning a championship and competing in your hometown. For me, it didn’t work out that way.

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 enjoyed my time in Houston but it was short-lived and it really didn’t make a huge impression on my life.

I’m not easily influenced by a lot of people.

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.

I’ve always said to my teammates that ‘two points is two points, whether it’s yours or mine.’

The Rockets paid a healthy price for Chris Paul.

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 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.