Top 55 Lonzo Ball Quotes

My family’s always going to be close.

Obviously, I want to be an All-Star.

I can shoot.

56 Nights’ one of the best mixtapes ever.

You’ve never seen anyone shoot it like me. It comes off the left side. I don’t know. I don’t know. It still spins the right way.

It’s my life, it’s up to me what I want to do with it. And I’m realizing that.

Getting on fast-breaks, you don’t do that when you let a team shoot 20 free throws in one quarter.

I got a close friend who raps.

I’m not loud. Not gonna be crazy with the refs.

Actually, I’ve always been kind of a leader, and it’s kind of just stuck with me throughout my whole career.

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.

During the pregnancy and stuff, I knew I had a daughter coming but when she finally got here that is when it really hit me. Ever since that day, I look at life a lot differently.

I want to be M.V.P. one day. But for me, it’s all about championships.

I feel great in pick-and-roll.

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.

I just go out there and play basketball.

Once you believe in yourself, you can pretty much do whatever you want in my opinion, so that is the main thing.

I know who I am. People who know me know who I am. That’s all that matters.

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.

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.

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.

I played guard my whole life, and liked having the ball in my hands.

The way I play, I like to be free.

My family’s always going to be together.

If you mention the Lakers, you think about Kobe.

If you want to be a good shooter, you’ve got to shoot.

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.

Playing defense out here against grown men is physical.

You can lose any night.

I’ve been shooting all my life.

I write when I get bored, when I have nothing to do.

People are kind of used to me shooting.

I do all my playing on the court.

I just live in the moment.

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.

I don’t think you can talk if you’re not doing your job.

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’ve always been a fan of rap music.

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.

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.

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.

Don’t nobody listen to Nas anymore.

Ever since I was a kid I’ve been rapping.

There’s no off nights. When you think it’s an off night, it’s not.

When it comes down to the last five minutes, it’s not about Xs and Os. It’s pretty much who wants it more.

If you see me, you’re going to hear some type of music coming out of me.

I chose to go to CAA. I think me becoming my own man is going to make it easier, honestly.

I tell everybody take it one game at a time.

If you keep doing something over and over, you should get good at it.

I remember going to pre-school, you know, rolling out in the Suburban and my dad bumping all types of rap, so he introduced me to it and from there I just loved it ever since.

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.

Obviously if your head coach expects more of you, you bring it to the table.

Knowing some guys are way bigger than you, way faster than you, you have to find other ways to do what you want to do.

If I’m open, I’m shooting.

Every team I played for, I pretty much been the dude on it.