The Kobe 8 is about enhanced performance. It's the most comfortable shoe I have worn. It's simplistic but has an edge to it.

The guy said NBA players are one in a million, ... I said, 'Man, look, I'm going to be that one in a million.

I won’t react to something just because I’m supposed to, because I’m an African-American.

The motivation for me is just the game itself, just playing the game the right way and trying to win, compete every time I step out there on the floor. That's motivation enough for me to go out there and play well.

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 don't want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant.

We all can be masters at our craft, but you have to make sacrifices that come along with making that decision.