Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school.
I'll make the right decision, whichever one it is. I have to be 100 percent, not 95 or 99.
Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the league. It's terrible.
I think we're a deeper team, a better team, we still have work to do... nothing is guaranteed, but hopefully we got the mentality to play on the road, and we're starting to get our home thing back in order now-if we can do that we'll be just fine.
You take the good with the bad and try not to listen to everything said about you because you know it's not good.
I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
When I said I retired from basketball playing, I have retired. You will not see me play again. That is a promise.
You work for whatever you get in life.
I just think we want to stay healthy, and I don't think we think about a sense of urgency. We realize how old we are, we realize we've been playing this game for a long time, but you know what? We're not done yet.
If I got something to say or do to a man, I'm going to look that man in the eye and tell him what is going to happen. That's just me now.
To catch the ball, face up, look at all of my options and then pass. I was playing hot potato. I didn't want to be the guy to stall the triangle.
Look at this, scabs and cuts all over me, I get these every night, every game. They can't tell you that you're not at risk, and you can't tell me there's one guy in the N.B.A. who hasn't thought about it.
For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden.
I have to be working, doing things. That's the way I grew up and the way I was taught.
But I think anybody who believes I could force coach Sloan to resign is crazy. He's stronger than that and personally if I said that to him, he'd probably go tell me to go do something.
I can do something physically the other guy can't. I know the other guy has not dedicated himself the way I did.
I don't know what my label is. I just think of myself as a plain forward. I like to think I have some finesse to my game, but inside the paint is where men are made. If you can't play there, you should be home with your mama.
Misery loves company. This is a Hollywood soap opera, and I'm not going to be a star in another Bryant soap opera.
It takes people a while to trust you.
You don't try to do more than you should.
