Quotes from Lonzo Ball

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.

My dad's a funny guy.

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.

I've always been a fan of rap music.

Ever since I was a kid I've been rapping.

Melo has a chance to be a better player than me, for sure. I feel at the same age, he's better than me. In real time, I don't think he's better than me. But I'm the big brother so I'm always going to have that edge over him.

I like '4:44.' It's a good album. AY-Z's a great, great artist.

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

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.

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

It's my life, it's up to me what I want to do with it. And I'm realizing that.

Man, at the end of the day, it's just a game. And the way I look at it, when I have fun, that's when I play my best basketball.

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

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 like Chino more than L.A., to be honest.

Future put out nine projects in a row that's all hits. 'Dirty Sprite 2' is one of the best albums ever.

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

Oh, my dad listens to a lot of 2Pac, Ice Cube and WC. That's what he was listening to a lot when we were growing up. He's always been a fan of hip-hop.

Once you believe in yourself, you can pretty much do whatever you want in my opinion, so that is the main thing.

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.

I know I play with a lot of passion, but from the outside looking in, people say, 'He's passive. Doesn't play hard.' And others say, 'It just comes easy to him. He's smooth.' That's just how I play. Always been the same person.

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.

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.

A lot of people label me as not a defender for some reason. I don't know why.