My parents are my backbone. Still are. They're the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.

The only thing I'm afraid of is bees. I don't like bees. I'm allergic to them.

It never bothered me when people would say, 'You only win championships because you're playing with Shaq.' It bothered me when he said it.

There's been a lot of talk of me being a one-man show but that's simply not the case. We win games when I score 40 points and we've won when I score 10.

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

I've pretty much done all I can here and, you know, God will carry me the rest of the way, so I'm pretty comfortable with that.