Lakers Quotes

That's sort of a trick question, and I don't have a trick answer. Next question, please.

Lakers just been taking care of business for a long time now. It's easy to love them.

I'm not going to try to go out there and outdo him. I don't have to try to outdo him, I'm Shaq.

Turning down the Lakers was tough, but it is always good to renew your vows to the loves of your life.

Lakers were able to maintain a certain level of talent and success and so were the Celtics. So after awhile it became part of people's sports lore...

The Lakers fans have been great, even folks in the supermarket are welcoming me back.

For years now, the Lakers have expressed interest in having me play for them, but we could never get the stars to align. I'm finally a Laker...

You know how I be. Last week Kobe couldn't do without me.

He's a jokester, and that's funny, very funny. Ha-ha. Very funny.

Kobe always tried to be a hero. But you know, as the saying goes, a hero ain't nothing but a sandwich.

I met wonderful people playing in the NBA. Whether it is the officials, the scorekeepers, all the people who work for the NBA, not just for the Lakers, but I'm talking about just for the league itself.

My mission is to kill; whether it's the Heat, whether it's the Lakers. Hopefully both. That's my mission, and that's what I'm here to do.

If a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms, that doesn't make them Kobe Bryant.

In the seven or eight years we were together, we were never together.

Lakers are my boys! I'm 100 percent the biggest Kobe fan on the planet. I text him after every game to tell him what's up.

Anybody who doesn't think I want the Lakers to win is a fool. But I'm no homer.

I have nothing but respect for the Lakers. So many of their legends shaped who I am as a person and player.

One of the biggest reasons I bought the Lakers was to beat the Celtics.

When I was 17, I was a Lakers Girl; I was the youngest girl on the squad.

This summer is going to be a different summer for a lot of people. Everyone is going to take care of their own business and everyone is going to do what's best for them, including me.

If you don't stick to simplicity, you'll die a horrible death.

I will never forget my humble beginnings as a Laker Girl. It was probably one of the most fun jobs I ever had.

There is nothing for me to be sour about. What you got to understand is that I'm a military man. We usually do my shift for four or five years and then you got to move on.

I don't know. I don't have a fax machine, so I didn't get that message.

The rivalry between the Lakers and Celtics endured for about eight years, and the interest grew each year.

Talk to the guys that ain't doing nothing, don't talk to me. I just want eight guys out there with me who want to play.

My personal opinion is, how, if you never hung out with somebody, do you know them so well? I never hung out with that dude because the dude is a weirdo.

I always loved the Clippers. You root for the underdog. Obviously, everybody in L.A. is a Laker fan, but deep down inside, you root for the Clippers. If you're a true Los Angelean, that's how it happens. You always want the Clippers to do well.

We survive our way through basketball hoping the #‎ Lakers will survive and we hope for the #‎ Kings and for the #‎ Ducks and we want them all to succeed but if you are a true fan and especially if you are a #‎ Dodgers fan deep down inside you are saying please get out of the way, get off the stage, here come the DODGERS!

Most ferocious was Kobe. Fiercest, most competitive, it was Kobe. D Wade is second after that.

The two top teams with nice weather and nice people were Dallas and Miami. Of course, the Lakers wouldn't want to trade me in the same conference, so Miami was perfect.

Since I suffered the injury on company time, why shouldn't I also be able to get surgery and do recovery on company time?

Christmas Day was special because everybody is watching at home. That's what I loved about Christmas Day because it shined the spotlight on the Lakers, on our team, and we knew that all of the other leagues were at home and millions of people were watching. So it made it a special day to play on Christmas.

There is nothing to say because I know everything about him. I raised him. I know what's a charade, and I know what's not a charade. I'll leave it at that.

You've got to be a Lakers fan growing up in L.A. with all these championships.

I'm not the one buying love. He's the one buying love.

Yeah, I play a lot of their games. Going way back to Bulls vs. Lakers to the later Live stuff, I go at it quite a bit. More than anything tough, I play Madden.

If you've got a Corvette that runs into a brick wall, you know what's going to happen. He's a Corvette. I'm a brick wall.

The LA Lakers are so good they could run a fast break with a medicine ball.

Congratulations to the NBA champion Boston Celtics - they beat the Los Angeles Lakers by 39 points. Or as Hillary Clinton would say, "Too close to call.

I had orders from the great Bill Russell. Me and him were talking in Seattle the other day, and he was telling me how rivalries should be. I asked him if he ever disliked anybody he played against, and he told me, 'No, never,' and he told me that I should shake Kobe Bryant's hand and let bygones be bygones and bury the hatchet.

The best players are always in the thick of the action. (Michael) Jordan did it with the Bulls, (Kobe) Bryant does it with the Lakers and Leo does it here. We want him to stay with us because he's the best and we wouldn't swap him for anyone.

How can Benedict Arnold be reliable in what he says?

There's a tipping point that happens with soccer in which you just kinda get it. I was drawn to it because the best soccer teams play similarly to my favorite basketball teams - like the eighties Lakers or eighties Celtics - teams that emphasized teamwork over individualism and relied on passing as their biggest ongoing edge.

He doesn't need advice on how to play his position, but he needs advice on how to play team ball... If it's going to be my team, I'll voice my opinion. If he don't like it, he can opt out.

I'm a cop, and cops talk. They called me the day he did it, but did you ever hear me say anything about it? I played ball, because that's how I am. I'm true.

Well, I might take a plane, I might take a train. How do you people live here? You must be insane. I'm leaving Sacramento. Sacramento, I won't stay. But I'll be sure to come back when the Lakers beat the Kings in May.

I think people fail to realize that teams and organizations have been stacking teams since way back in the day. The Lakers had the Showtime era. Boston had six hall of famers on one team. You had Detroit, the New York Knicks, and now the Miami Heat. They were stacking their teams back then, it just fell off over the years and now it picked back up. Boston did it first, then LA. I was fortunate enough to play against them when they had Shaq, Kobe, Rick Fox, Gary Payton, Karl Malone... that's five hall of famers on one team! So you can't get mad at Miami for doing what they did.

I'm probably going to have to go with Kobester. He's an assassin with LeBron coming right after.

I was busy with my family, my budding career as a TV writer, my antipathy for the Los Angeles Lakers, and my general reluctance to engage in anything that might force me to leave my comfort zone. But sometimes ideas won't let you go. For me, educating girls was like that.