Lou Williams Quotes

I look at my jersey and see the NBA logo, I'm like, 'I didn't think I'd be here.'

I won at every level - all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I've won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won't be fulfilled until I win at the highest level.

I used to watch LeBron on TV growing up, and now I'm playing my first game against him.

You have a lot of great teams in the NBA. I watched San Antonio against Dallas, and they're two great teams, and there are great teams in the east, as well. So it takes time to gel, as we've all seen.

I want to be the Defensive Player of the Year and, if I have the chance, be MVP.

The NBA has the best point guards in the world, so it is important that I come ready to play every night.

I won my first medal when I was nine years old. It was at the Boston Open.

You hear all these stories about, 'There's one in a million guys that make it to the NBA and stay there.' To see people cheering for me and when they say my name, it's just crazy. It's still crazy to me.

I'm a competitive type of person, whether it's playing a game of basketball or playing business games.

He's helped me do so much in my career, helped me be the player that I am. If there's no Larry Brown, then there's no MVP, Allen Iverson.

That's the one regret I have in all the years that I've played professional sports, that I didn't win a championship in the N.F.L. And that's why you play on any level of team sports: you want to win a championship as part of a team.

Growing up, I always dreamed of winning an NBA championship, never a gold. A gold was something that never crossed my mind.

Any time you get to compete for the championship in a professional spot, it's just a magic thing.

Larry Brown molded me into an MVP and a Hall of Fame player.

There's no medals for trying. This isn't like eighth grade where everybody gets a trophy. We are in a professional sport, and it is competitive to win. That's what we do.

I wanted to see if I could win a championship in San Antonio.

After I failed to win the Most Valuable Player Award in 1960, I made up my mind I'd win the batting title in 1961 for the first time.

It's really annoying for me. That's not what I'm playing for, to be the face of the NBA or to be this or that or to take LeBron's throne or whatever.

Reggie - that was on the court. Reginald is the executive.

Kevin Durant's kind of been my favorite player my whole life, so it's going to be fun going against him in the Garden.

I'm just playing basketball. I just want to be a great player. That's it. That's all I'm thinking about. If the other stuff comes, it comes, but I'm just fortunate to play in the NBA Finals and just to play basketball, period.

I never thought I'd make it in the NBA, so everything else is gravy.

Just to be able to play one minute in an NBA game, I'm grateful for that.

Ever since I was little, I wanted to win the NBA championship.

Making it to the NBA is a big goal in my life, and one day I hope to conquer it.