Quotes from Lou Williams

I'm a creature of habit. I don't really like change.

You have all the ambition of winning a championship and competing in your hometown. For me, it didn't work out that way.

Obviously, Ray Allen is a huge threat, Eddie House coming off the bench is a huge threat, as far as three-pointers go.

If you hit me, I'm gonna try to shoot the ball and get two free throws.

I don't make a decision till I see fit. That's why I'm so effective. My mind isn't predetermined.

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.

I think in Toronto my job was to score just based on the system that we had. We played a lot of iso basketball - a lot of one-on-one basketball.

When you play in Toronto you feel like you're playing overseas. We can't wait to go on the road sometimes just to be in America.

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.

What AI was able to do at his size, with the teams that he had was remarkable, you can't take that from him.

Repetitions - I think that's one of the best ways during the season to maintain something or get better at it, is just to do it over and over.

I don't like idle time.

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

When I got traded to the Raptors Kyle Lowry told me, 'We expect you to average 15 points a game off the bench.' And I said, 'Perfect, so you need me here.' And that made me feel wanted. So once he put that expectation on me, it just made everything fall into place.

I'm not easily influenced by a lot of people.

When people treat you well, you just want to transfer it back over.

I don't sleep much. I think it's hereditary. My mom doesn't sleep. My dad never slept. My naps are definitely when I get the most sleep. I'm a big napper - that's when I get most of my sleep.

Kobe Bryant is a walking stat himself. He doesn't have to explain what he brings to the table.

A lot of guys ask me, 'Why did you go straight from high school to the NBA?' So I ask them, 'If you had the opportunity to take your dream job at 17- or 18-years-old, would you do it?'

I've always said to my teammates that 'two points is two points, whether it's yours or mine.'

Honestly, I was a troublemaker. The environment I grew up in, my mom and my sister, they decided they were going to sign me up in every single thing to keep me busy. I played football, basketball, baseball. Anything, whatever was in season, I was signed up for it. Basketball was one of the things that just stuck.

I thought I was pretty average height. And then it just clicked to me - 'Yo, you're undersized.' I guess when I got older and my body started hurting, I'm like, 'I'm not as big as I thought I was.' So I always played with the mentality that I was bigger than I actually was.

I'm kind of arrogant and cocky when I play... It's kind of weird. It's like I have split personalities.

If you look at the history of the NBA, guys that came out of high school are the guys that held the NBA together. You look a Kobe Bryant, you look at a LeBron, these are household names.