Top 70 Lakers Quotes

I love the feeling of being in front of a live crowd and performing and just kind of letting loose and getting the crowd involved, and I got to perform at the Superbowl and at the Staples Center, you know, at the Lakers game, which was amazing.

Whenever I hear people crying about Kobe yelling at people in practice or wondering whether or not LeBron is best friends with his teammates, I just roll my eyes. You know how many off-court conversations I had with the Zen-Master Phil Jackson in my entire time with the Lakers? One.

My biggest concern for the Lakers – and they’re going have to figure out a way to rectify this – is Lonzo Ball.

You never know who you’re going to see there during a Lakers game.

I was excited about going to the Lakers because they are probably the biggest brand in basketball.

I can’t say that I grew up saying, ‘Someday I want to be vice president of the Lakers,’ because that’s not how it happened. I work for our family business, and that happens to be the Lakers.

I really wasn’t expecting to fall so hard for Phil. As a matter of fact, when my dad said he was talking to Phil Jackson about him coming to L.A. to coach the Lakers, I tried to argue against it.

There’s a lot of spoiled Lakers fans.

When I grew up it was Michael Jordan and Chicago Bulls, the Lakers, the Boston Celtics, those were the teams you loved or hated and me being from San Diego, you loved the Lakers.

As a kid, you always wanna play for either the Lakers or Boston just for the rivalry alone.

The Klutch Sports Group and the Lakers don’t have an issue. Rich Paul and Rob Pelinka don’t have an issue. LeBron James and Rob Pelinka don’t have an issue. And Jeanie Buss and LeBron James and Rich Paul don’t have an issue. It’s very simple. Very simple.

What I made clear to our front office is we’re going to be judged by wins and losses. It isn’t about having a marquee star player and coming in last place. That’s not what Lakers basketball is. Lakers basketball is winning basketball.

There was a time period where I was obsessed with the rivalry between the Lakers and the Celtics in the 1980s.

Everyone ‘watches Kobe when the Lakers play.

Growing up in California, I was always a Lakers fan.

An NBA game in L.A., the Lakers – I’m a Clipper fan – it’s to be seen as much as seeing the game.

I can’t tell you how many letters I get from grandmothers who say, ‘It’s the only thing I can talk to my 15-year-old grandson about.’ The Lakers are more than just a basketball team to this city. They’re part of this community.

Losing Michael Jackson is a handicap. It’s the Lakers trying to win a championship without Kobe Bryant.

The Lakers have been part of the process of revitalizing downtown L.A. That’s what my dad’s passion was. He loved to win, but he loved this city. He wanted this city to be proud of its team.

I really like to play to squash, because it’s competitive, and I like basketball. I’m friends with a guy in L.A. called Andrew Bynum, who used to play for the L.A. Lakers NBA team. We play together sometimes.

The Lakers got Pau Gasol for 10 rubles and a John Tesh DVD.

When I joined the Lakers and moved to L.A., I started getting more serious about collecting sneakers and dressing from the feet up.

Every fan wants to win every year, that’s how my dad was. It would be nice to be able to do that every year, but I think Lakers fans know, as long as they see progress, and steps going in the right direction, they’ll be patient.

The first time I ever spoke to John Cassavetes was at a Lakers game. I got up to go for a hot dog, and he was coming in the opposite direction. I don’t know who said hello first, but we started talking, and it turned out that he went to high school with my first wife, Alice.

It’s very tough competition in the West. The Lakers deserve to be called the favorites.

I think if all three of my boys get on the Lakers somehow, they would change the NBA.

Whatever is in the best interest of the Lakers, that’s what’s important to me.

How can you not like the Lakers?

The Lakers and the Clippers teams play against each other; friends shouldn’t.

When I was living in L.A., first of all, I had actually tried out or submitted to be on ‘Tough Enough’ when I was living in L.A. and then I ended up getting, like, a few call backs, but because I had just moved out there for the Lakers, I just felt like I couldn’t have done both.

When I was 17, I was a Lakers Girl; I was the youngest girl on the squad.

We get three of the Ball boys on the Lakers together, and we gonna go championship, championship, championship, championship, championship.

The Lakers have always been on the forefront and anywhere LeBron has been, has been on the forefront.

I don’t know anything else but the Lakers. This has certainly been more than a job for me as a player. It has certainly meant more to me than just an occupation.

You can’t just live in the past, peddling the ’80s Showtime Lakers, and expect everyone to know what that is. We have many fans who weren’t even alive in the ’80s.

I loved basketball and grew up with the Lakers and Magic Johnson. That was a big part of me.

The Lakers have figured out how to win in every era.

The Lakers are family. My kids don’t have to switch schools. Little things like that are important. People don’t think about things like that. I feel like something special is going to happen in this town.

Jerry West really helped a lot, and so did players like Magic Johnson. That’s why, at the end of my career, I wanted to finish my career with the Lakers.

It was always my dream to play in the NBA, especially for the Lakers because they’re the greatest franchise ever.

If I had an opportunity to hand-pick a team that I wanted to play in the NBA Finals, it would probably be the Lakers.

I realize the NBA has a brand that is very global. But there aren’t many brands that travel as well as the Chicago Bulls. Perhaps only the Los Angeles Lakers.

Any time you have any type of record in any record book, especially with the Lakers, it is pretty special.

I remember, years ago, if I had had an opportunity to leave the Lakers, I would have left for one reason: because I did not like an owner that was not telling me the truth. And it would have made no difference what they would have offered me; I would have left.

I was huge on basketball and baseball. I love sports. I’m an L.A. guy. I love the Lakers and Dodgers.

I grew up watching the Lakers.

Dr. Buss set the bar high for the Lakers.

We could not be more proud to have LeBron James as part of our Lakers family. He is an incredibly thoughtful and intelligent leader and clearly appreciates the power sports has to unite communities and inspire the world to be a better place.

I don’t think the Lakers really knew me when they first drafted me. They just saw my name and my size and my stats. They just picked somebody because they had to.

I grew up in L.A., so I’m a huge Lakers fan and Kobe fan.

Indiana wanted to go in a different direction, wanted to go younger, and the Lakers wanted me, so I said, who wouldn’t want to be in L.A? That was a no-brainer.

In my two and a half years with the Lakers, I didn’t win much games.

I think that a lot of times we get wrapped up in just our career – we play ball, we make good money. As a kid you probably grew up a Lakers fan, a Clippers fan or whatever it is because sports is just a thing when you’re a child. But, when you really look at the overall picture, we have a platform and a voice.

People didn’t even know where the Lakers’ training center was, because we didn’t have a flagpole to say, ‘This is our home.’ We were kind of hidden in the back of the L.A. Kings’ practice facility.

Everyone watches the Lakers, let’s be honest.

In a way, it’s like I want to come here, I want to play for the home team and put a Lakers jersey on. That’s always going to be something that I want to fulfill.

I always was a fan of the Lakers.

People want to be Lakers. There’s just so much pressure, and some guys handle it and some guys can’t.

The Lakers had been home to me, unlike the home I had grown up and felt apart from.

I had to earn the respect from everybody, from referees to opponents, but my teammates, they saw some European guy coming here and I had to prove myself. Luckily, I proved myself, but with big help from the entire Lakers organization.

Even before my dad passed away, people tried to buy the Lakers. Sony tried in the 1980s. People have always wanted to buy the Lakers. They’re not for sale.

It took for me to get to the Lakers and for my teammates to help me get through that mental block that I had. Anytime I was open, anytime it even looked like I might be open, they always told me, ‘Shoot the ball. We don’t care if it goes in or if you don’t make it. Just shoot it.’

My true love is the Lakers – once a Laker, always a Laker.

I’ve been a Lakers fan since growing up in Oklahoma. My hometown’s finally got the Thunder, which is really exciting, but I’ve still got to stick with the Lakers.

The Lakers fanbase is enormous. Getting the fans on our side is a huge advantage for us.

I have season tickets to the Lakers and the Clippers.

I can’t root for the Lakers. I grew up in northern California, so I spent many of my young adult years rooting against the Lakers.

When I first fell in love with the game, and I’m outside playing in front of the house, I’m not picturing myself in an Indiana jersey or picturing myself in a Thunder jersey. I pictured myself in a Lakers jersey.

If you mention the Lakers, you think about Kobe.

When the Lakers sent me down to the D-League, I didn’t view it as a demotion. I accepted it as a challenge. Plus, it meant playing more minutes, which meant growth.