Lonzo Ball Quotes

When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.

I was always smaller and slower than everybody else, so I had to figure out other ways to be successful. Some people can survive on their athleticism; I had to survive on my brain.

By seizing the opportunities that disruption presents and leveraging hard times into greater success through outworking/outinnovating/outthinking and outworking everyone around you, this just might be the richest time of your life so far.

If you are losing at a game, change the game.

There's always going to be a way for me to go around a defense or play mind games and find a way to win.

Growing up not being the biggest guy around, you learn different ways of playing tennis. I've learned to adapt.

The teams that you come across, they are not physically super-human, they are just very good. So it is asking what do we about that. How do we take on the challenge?

I had the brain for football, but I didn't have the height. So I started using my brain to overcome those weaknesses and discovered football isn't just about size or power: it's about what's up there. That was the making of me.

Sometimes you need to find ways to win games in different ways.

I still love to play chess. So I do not even spend a minute on the possibility to step back.

If you have a strong opponent, a competition is stimulating. I am generally most open to ideas when I have had a bad result. In chess, too, players specialise. This specialty then becomes an entry barrier.

After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.

The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.

When you're young, you develop ways to win, and you think they will always work, but then you get to the top, competing against the other top athletes, and sometimes things don't work.

Entrepreneurs don't write a 100-page business plan and execute it one time; they're always experimenting and adapting based on what they learn.

Sometimes, we need an obstacle to challenge us and push us further than we would if things were always status quo. I'd say one example is the market crashing. It's like, just when we started to get into a rhythm, everything changed! But, it taught us a great deal about how we do business and how we can improve.

To survive, you've got to keep wheedling your way. You can't just sit there and fight against odds when it's not going to work. You have to turn a corner, dig a hole, go through a tunnel - and find a way to keep moving.

If you can't get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.

Yielding is sometimes the best way of succeeding.

I am used to changing tactics to adapt to the climate.

At some point in your life, you'll find yourself in a similar position: Surrounded by people who are smarter, faster, who have more experience and more money - and you'll just have to find a way. And you'll have to do it with passion.

There's different ways to win in this league. It's not always going to be pretty.

You just have to fight the perfect fight to win. You have to have a game plan and follow it. You have to develop every time you go out there and keep getting better.

Never give up, because at the end of it all we all trying to win.

The game plan might be different based on the opponent, but the approach is the same.