Lou Williams Quotes

Lou Williams

Profession : Athlete

Birth : October 27, 1986

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.

Lou Williams

I don't really focus on the guy that's defending me.

Lou Williams

Teams know what I bring to the table.

Lou Williams

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

Lou Williams

I've always gotten doubled. Coming off the bench, people try to eliminate bench scorers, so that's been my experience for years now. You just find ways to beat it.

Lou Williams

I want to be successful. I want to be able to win.

Lou Williams

I've had very supportive teammates.

Lou Williams

When you're losing that tends to kind of build the character of everybody together.

Lou Williams

I had the opportunity to play alongside Allen Iverson and Kevin Ollie at the same time. I kind of had the best of both worlds. I had one guy that was super talented and another guy that came with his lunch pail every day and that was a worker. I want to kind of be a mix of both.

Lou Williams

I've always been a guy to try to create contact; create scoring opportunities based off the free throw line and being aggressive in that way.

Lou Williams

I think my assist numbers dropped off in Toronto with the way we were built. We played a lot of isolation basketball. I know we were in the bottom half in the NBA as far as assists go.

Lou Williams

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

Lou Williams

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.

Lou Williams

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

Lou Williams

You don't want a team going around the league just thinking they can beat you by 30, 40 points every time that you play them.

Lou Williams

This is the NBA, anybody can beat anybody.

Lou Williams

I wouldn't call myself a real point guard.

Lou Williams

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.

Lou Williams