...and that's what separates the professionals from the taxpayers

I love the competition no matter at what age.

There's always room for improvement. We have a nucleus that's pretty good. You want players that will help.

I'm a football guy at heart; maybe I should have played football for a living instead, because I play a lot of football videogames, I'm really into them.

I think we're going in the right direction.

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.

Kobe enjoys that situation. Stepping up and making the big basket or being involved in a key play.