A biography for LaVar Ballhasn’t been written yet.
“Parenting is different for everybody.”
“Ain't nobody going to stop me from doing what I'm doing.”
“Don't be scared of me because you can't get around like I get around. You gotta have a blue book to follow me. I'm just not local.”
“Luke Walton was the worst coach ever for Lonzo 'cause he had a losing mentality.”
“Can't nobody quiet me up.”
“Once you get into a real good situation, where somebody really believes in you, that's what you can take off to a whole other level.”
“Not everyone wants to go to school. Some guys might be blessed with being 6'10 and running and jumping better than anybody, so they want to be a professional athlete. There's nothing wrong with that.”
“If you don't have the coach, you're out of luck. So you can get as many players as you want, if you don't have a system or you don't understand what you're getting ready to do, you're not going to win.”
“I don't want no distractions on Melo. So therefore I'm going to home-school him and make him the best basketball player ever.”
“Realistically you can't win no championship with three white guys because the foot speed is too slow.”
“If you got a kid that makes everybody better, you mean to tell me you wouldn't take him over a guy that's averaging 40 points but the team's losing?”
“I don't want this to sound racist, but most Orientals are nonconfrontational. They'll let things slide. I'm not like that.”
“You have people that make suggestions you got people that do things.”
“Who's gonna want to wear a loser's shoe? I know I wouldn't.”
“I'm not diplomatic.”
“I know my boys better than they do.”
“I raised my boys good.”
“LeBron is not a fool.”
“I told my boys this: Somebody gotta be better than Michael Jordan. Why not you?”
“How would I coach LeBron and Lonzo? Guess what, less coaching is the best coaching. Let them do what they do.”