You play with your soul as well as your body.

Cancer is a scary thing and you have to deal with it seriously.

Elgin's game was an incredible performance, also. I don't think there's any comparison. Elgin did it without three-point lines. His game was attacking the hoop and hitting jumpers inside 20 feet. Kobe's range is unreal, and he does it his way.

My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.

Your best athletes might give basketball a try just when they think, geez, this might be something that pays off for me in the end.

I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

Kobe's an incredibly talented athlete, and there are many more like him among today's players.