Trevor Ariza

“In order to be a great team you have to be selfless.”

“Kobe was like a brother to me, for sure.”

“Whether I'm shooting the ball, playing defense, anything I can do to help the team win, that's what I try to do to the best of my abilities.”

“When you have players who are hungry to win, you don't have to tell them much.”

“When you have players that are willing to do anything to win, usually the results are pretty good.”

“I think that the game has gotten faster, so it's more position-less more so than position, and it's about fit and how pieces fit together and having teams match up to you more so than matching up to teams.”

“I'm going to compete. That's what you're going to get from me - competition. I've done throughout my whole career.”

“I play to win, because I think that's when you get the most praise is when you win.”

“There's always a switch that turns on at some point where you tell yourself, okay, the thing that I can control is the effort. When you figure that out, everything else just falls into place.”

“I'm happy any time I'm on the court.”

“The past is not going to get us anywhere. We've got to play for the moment.”

“It took for me to get to the Lakers and for my teammates to help me get through that mental block that I had. Anytime I was open, anytime it even looked like I might be open, they always told me, 'Shoot the ball. We don't care if it goes in or if you don't make it. Just shoot it.'”

“I'm confident in my abilities to play at any position at any weight, so I'm not worried about bulking up or anything like that.”

“My family is definitely the most important thing for me, before anything. Basketball, everything.”

“I'm 6'7' and like to sleep diagonally.”

“In order to get better, you've got to give to your team. If you give to your team, everybody sees it, everybody feels it, and it makes the next person next to you want to give to you.”

“Teams make runs and you just have to stay focused.”

“What I do know is I'm going to give absolute 100 percent effort any time I'm on the court.”

“No, you can't practice fouling.”

“I don't like ghosts.”