I wouldn't. I would just go home. I'd fake an injury or something.

I'll take 14 out of 15 any day of the week, any week of the month, any month of the year, any year of the century. I don't know what comes after century.

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

Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit.

Everything happens for a reason. I'm used to it, I prepare for it. Like I say, at the end of the day, those in charge of their own destiny are going to do what's right for them and their family.

I play against a front and a back every night, Ming does not have to do that, Duncan does not have to do that, Garnett doesn't do that. I am the only one that has to do that.

I am a tropical black man.