Lonzo Ball Quotes

Lonzo Ball

Profession : Athlete

Birth : October 27, 1997

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.

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

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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.

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My dad had me start lifting weights at 12, and for me it was fun.

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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.

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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.

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

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It helps me get rebounds, I can see over the defense pretty easily, and yeah, I thank God he blessed me with height.

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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.

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I don't like to do a lot of talking.

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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.

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The way I play, I like to be free.

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People are kind of used to me shooting.

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You can always work on everything.

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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.

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Playing defense out here against grown men is physical.

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

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That's what happens when you play in L.A. Everybody expects you to do well.

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I've been shooting all my life.

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

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