Jerry Buss Quotations

I have been on TV quite a few times as a poker player.

I think it's going to be a really exciting year. I believe we'll make the playoffs. I have a lot of confidence in that.

I think he had really kind of made up his mind somewhere during the year that he was going to leave. I don't think I really recognized that.When I told him what kind of team I wanted, what kind of exciting basketball I wanted to play ... Of course Kobe wanted to play the same kind of basketball and that's how we got together.

We're very pleased to have Phil return to the Lakers as our head coach. His record speaks for itself and his success in this sport is unparalleled. Quite simply, Phil is the best coach in the business and probably the greatest coach of all time.

We're very pleased to have Phil return to the Lakers as our head coach, ... His record speaks for itself and his success in this sport is unparalleled. Quite simply, Phil is the best coach in the business and probably the greatest coach of all time.

You're sitting and watching, and it's like a miracle unfolding in front of your eyes and you can't accept it. Somehow, the brain won't work. The easiest way to look at it is everybody remembers every 50-point game they ever saw. He had 55 in the second half.

I can remember standing in a W.P.A. line with a gunny sack, and I remember having to buy chocolate milk instead of white because it was one cent cheaper.

I can remember standing in a W.P.A. line with a gunny sack, and I remember having to buy chocolate milk instead of white because it was one cent cheaper.

When you think New York, you think Yankees.

Early in my career, I wanted to be a mathematician.

Anybody who makes an outlandish salary obviously attracts attention.

I mean, the Lakers are pretty damn Hollywood.

To go to USC without a scholarship is next to impossible.

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