He's the president. I'm the general. Unless I want to get impeached, I got to do what he says.

Kobe always tried to be a hero. But you know, as the saying goes, a hero ain't nothing but a sandwich.

As my great friend Aristotle said, 'If you cannot command, you must learn to listen.' I'm not the hierarchy here. I am a worker bee.

I don't have to shoot from more than two feet. I'm top 50. I've got 23,000 from where I shoot.

I'm still here. I'm a force to be reckoned with... you have to come take my spot, and not through Twitter and not through the media, come take my spot. I'm ready to go. As big men in the league, there are two who have done something special during this millennium. I'm one and Tim Duncan is the other. Anyone else has to come upstairs and see the Shogun. I'm still the Shogun.

I'm on a mission. And I know the older I get, I may lose a step or two, but it's all up in the medulla oblongata. I've got a lot up there. I've got a lot of knowledge... in this medulla oblongata.

Like I've always said, what's hot must go cold.