Lou Williams

“Never give up. That's my Clippers story, never give up.”

“Greatness is contagious.”

“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 would love to start if a coach considered me as a starter.”

“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 been a guy to try to create contact; create scoring opportunities based off the free throw line and being aggressive in that way.”

“You can go to war at 18, so you should be able to make a living at 18, especially if college isn't what you see for yourself.”

“In the summertime you'll find me back home in Atlanta, in the gym playing against whoever walks in that day.”

“I've always been friends with guys who are 6, 7 years older than me.”

“When you're losing that tends to kind of build the character of everybody together.”

“In the NBA they've taken away so much of the hand-checking and the physicality of how guys are able to guard you. So if you touch me, I'm gonna throw the ball toward the rim and get shots.”

“A lot of the stories I got on A.I., I can't say publicly. Overall, I just really appreciated how he went about going into games. He got a lot of flak for the 'practice' comment, but every game, he gave it his all.”

“Coming off the bench was an adjustment for me.”

“I watched myself get drafted by myself. I walked out of my own draft party because I was a little frustrated.”

“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.”

“The Rockets paid a healthy price for Chris Paul.”

“If you think that I got to come off the bench, then I am going to put you in a position to try to prove you wrong. Then after a while, it was kind of fun, and over the years it was my makeup.”

“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.”

“Whenever I'm out on the basketball court, I lace up and just hoop. Whether it's in summertime, at practice, in the games, playoffs, every time I step out on the basketball court, I approach it the same way.”

“The structure of college basketball never made sense to me. The coach is the star and you get up at 5:30 A.M. to run before class. That was never appealing to me.”