69 Quotes by Jeanie Buss

What I love about our league is that players have an opportunity in their career to be a free agent and decide where they want to invest their time and their talent, in whatever team and whatever system. They deserve that right. They've earned that right.

That's what people don't understand, that in the NBA these are the best 450 players in the world, in the game of basketball, are in the NBA.

The team will always be bigger than any one owner, or any one player, or one coach. The team is always first.

Kobe is worth every penny, and I'd never had any doubt that he'd contribute to this team.

Dr. Buss set the bar high for the Lakers.

There's the gold standard, and then there's the purple-and-gold standard.

I want people to know that I don't take for granted what's been given to me.

I get a lot of letters from people saying, 'I want to follow in your footsteps,' and I don't know how to tell people how to follow in my footsteps, because I can't give them the opportunities that I had.

Yes, I was given a privileged position at a young age. But if I had not been willing to work hard and prepare myself for all the challenges I would face, I would not have held on to my position all these years, regardless of my family ties.