If you want to make history, you have to do historic things

My role is to make sure we're moving in the right direction, getting points, rebounds, steals, assists and providing leadership.

I never tried to prove anything to someone else. I wanted to prove something to myself.

When you love something, you'll always come back to it. You'll always keep asking questions, and finding answers.

By eloquence I understand those appeals to our moral perceptions that produce emotion as soon as they are uttered. This is the very enthusiasm that is the parent of poetry. Let the same man go to his closet and clothe in numbers conceptions full of the same fire and spirit, and they will be poetry.

I felt like when we came back from the All-Star break we needed everybody to feel like they were part of the team, ... I'm just trying to do whatever the team needs at any given time.

I have my own identity ... The whole Michael thing does drive me nuts sometimes because people won't leave it alone. He's bald, I have hair. He's almost 40, I'm 22. Seriously though, I wish people would let it be and let me just be Kobe.