Lonzo Ball Quotes

If you work so hard to reach your goal but you lose your pole in the very last run, that's hard to take.

My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.

Yeah, two or three weeks ago I was fairly snappy. I've never been injured before and this year it feels like I've hardly played.

Year 6 was the toughest one yet for me. That was the first time in my life I couldn't put my whole heart into basketball.

I like to play basketball. Sometimes if someone takes that away from you, you've got to get in your feelings for a reason.

It's definitely hard being taken from your dream, especially when you're trying to accomplish something.

When you are injured - and injured for a while - it is hard. You have to go to the training ground and watch everyone go out to play.

I'm not gonna sugarcoat it: It sucks to lose sometimes.

When you can't do what you love all of a sudden because of an uncontrollable situation, it sucks.

It's more frustrating. My expectation probably wasn't that I'd play [during the playoffs], but I was just trying to make sure that if there was any chance that it was possible to come back that I was ready and that I'd done everything I could to be ready. It's frustrating, disappointing. But can't really control any of that.

It frustrated me as a kid. Like, why didn't I just wake up every morning shooting half-court shots from my bedroom?

Sometimes when you miss out on points, it is a pity, it is a shame, because we tried to do everything in the game.

The manner of my defeat against Mayweather and certainly Manny Pacquiao was a bitter pill to swallow.

I was an athlete when I was younger and played a lot of sports, including golf, but I always ended up throwing around my clubs in frustration.

Seven straight years of losing isn't fun for anyone.

When one loses, it's easy to focus on the refereeing decisions.

I got a third-degree ankle sprain practicing long jump. I never fully recovered. That was my first heartbreak. I thought track was going to be something that was going to happen in my life. It never went in the direction I wanted it to, no matter how hard I tried.

I base a lot off the team's success, and when the team's not playing well, you're getting your head beat in pretty much every night, it's tough to try and enjoy what you're doing.

The magic of the cup is winning it, or causing an upset as far as I am concerned - but it is not so enjoyable for anyone when you are on the receiving end.

I've been on teams that never made it to the playoffs. It wasn't fun playing meaningless football.

There's no more bad feeling than when you get a defeat.

Well, that kind of puts a damper on even a Yankee win.

It's not bad enough I am exiled? It's not bad enough you take away the few good heroes I'm allowed to meet? You think it's funny to send me this this ― this charbroiled runt of a boy to ruin my tranquility? This is NOT FUNNY! Take him back!

She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.

You lose in the Finals, they're all disappointing. Doesn't matter if I'm playing in Miami, Cleveland or on Mars. You lose the Finals, it's disappointing.