D'Angelo Russell Quotes

"I got ice in my veins!"

"When you find your niche, you just gotta continue to be confident and thrive in it."

"No matter what the circumstances, you always enjoy being around guys that you bond with, win, lose, whatever it may be."

"I always prided myself in being different."

"As far as coming out on top with the right mentality and it molding you into the best human being you can be, I think that's what Brooklyn did for me. I became an All-Star, I got to touch the playoffs. To get a piece of that, I'm forever thankful."

"I really didn't get to experience college. I enjoyed Ohio State, but I didn't feel like I had a chance to live the college life. When some guys got bored, they went out partying or to the student center. When I got bored, I went to the gym."

"The league has changed in so many ways. There are no point guards anymore, there are no centers anymore; it's all positionless basketball."

"My family is my biggest critic."

"Like, if you get close enough to me you'll see how I really am."

"If I've lost anyone's trust, I'm going to work my tail off to get it back."

"I can control how much work I put in for me to be consistent."

"I always had the confidence. The platform, guys getting injured and giving me multiple opportunities, that has allowed me to showcase it."

"Not a lot of teams take you into consideration, like a lot of teams can easily decide to if you're hurt or anything, make you go play."

"The older you get, the more you start to understand your body, so I try to just focus on my body every summer."

"It's hard to be so mentally competitive and when you're not competing you try to turn it off but it doesn't work like that. I don't think you can just turn it off, I think you still find ways to be competitive - if it's playing a video game, if it's playing cards."

"I'm a dog lover - I've had them since I was younger."

"It can be easy to just be a professional half the time, and you may see half the results, but when you're consistent, you can see your full results and you can pan out to be who you want to be year by year."

"I hired a full-time chef, so I wasn't taking that time to order pizzas or eat Wild Wings or stuff like that. I travel somewhere, I'm gone for a long period, I have a chef. I think that elevated my game."

"I'm part-time vegan. I try to be vegan when I can. But I dip and dive in everywhere."

"I wing my style. I think it's definitely something on how you feel, the weather, that plays a part."

"If you have your own taste, you know what looks right and what looks good on you versus someone kind of telling you what looks good on you."

"Yeah, I consider myself an unpredictable player. A player that's flashy here and there and then is maybe conservative here and there and I think when it comes to dressing, it's me figuring out that balance of when to be flashy or when to be super simple with maybe flashy shoes."

"You look good. You play good. That's a true statement."

"I want to be me - and people know it's me. I don't want: 'He's trying to act like Kobe' or 'His answers are like something Kobe would've said.' Nah. If it's me, I'm going to say it."

"I know my work ethic and know what I've put in to get where I'm at."

"It's hard to keep a positive attitude coming to work every day, feeling like you're getting better when the same result is losing."

"It's always good to be a trendsetter."

"I wasn't really a fashionable guy in high school."

"The Lakers fanbase is enormous. Getting the fans on our side is a huge advantage for us."

"I'll let my game speak for itself."