Teach players the game at an early age and stop treating them like cash cows for everyone to profit off of.

I'm here. I'm not going anywhere. No matter what the injury - unless it's completely debilitating - I'm going to be the same player I've always been. I'll figure it out. I'll make some tweaks, some changes, but I'm still coming.

If I panic, everyone else panics.

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

The most important thing, the thing that unites all of us, is that we can INSPIRE and CHALLENGE one another TO BE BETTER.

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.

I was probably born a scorer, but I was made a winner. Whatever works, whatever wins championships, wins games, that's what I do.