Lonzo Ball

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

Obviously, I want to be an All-Star.

It starts the fast-break a lot easier when I get the ball. I don't have to wait for big men to give me it. Just get it and go.

I was kind of forced to rebound at a young age. I was usually at the back in the press of the 2-3 zone, because my brothers were smaller than me. So I usually got most of the rebounds.

I feel great in pick-and-roll.

I can shoot.

I think you're either born a leader or you're not.

Playing defense out here against grown men is physical.

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.

We're competitors.

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.

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

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

If you mention the Lakers, you think about Kobe.

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

I was just taught, the team goes how the point guard goes.

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

When I play the game, I play to win.

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

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.

It is a team game, we all play for each other; obviously we win and lose as a team, but I like to take the blame when we lose.

No, I don't get nervous when I play basketball.

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.

The way I play, I like to be free.

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.

It gets frustrating when you play basketball for your whole life and then it gets taken from you for a little bit.

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

If I'm mad or showing my frustration, the whole team's gonna be like that, techs, and people are going to go down. So I just try to keep the even keel. That's why I don't get too high or too low. I've been playing like that my whole life. It's just natural for me.

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

I've been shooting all my life.

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

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.

You can always work on everything.

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.

People are kind of used to me shooting.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

I've been good at the game of basketball my whole life, so I'm hoping I can get back to that.

Growing up, a lot of my shots came off of me dribbling and shooting it.

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.