People will be talking a lot about it. We swept, so they're going to say we didn't have as much competition. But it's hard to get to this point. We had the most dominant player to play the game. Nobody can stop Shaq , so people will compare the two, but I don't think even if we played the [old] Bulls they could have stopped Shaq. |
Pressure can burst a pipe or pressure can make a diamond. |
Records are always going to be broken; I'm sure someone wanted to see him catch Wilt. |
She's good. At first a lot of guys challenged her on calls, like 'Come on,' but she stood up for herself. That says a lot about her. Guys respect her. ... She doesn't back down from anybody. |
There are a lot of people who don?t have the ability to walk down the street, ... I?m just glad God gave me the ability to walk down the street, [let alone] make shots. |
They [international players] go out and practice basic skills. We [Americans] go to school and they go to [basketball] camps, basically. They teach them basketball 24/7. We don't do that, so that's why the [international] explosion has [occurred]. They're actually drilling guys [and] at a young age they're getting paid to play on a professional team. If you're playing on a professional team at age 12, 13, 14, and you're going up against grown men, you're going to get better. |
We have some good moments and some bad moments, but it's not like we are playing bad. We missed Tony tonight but we played well tonight when we had to. |
We know they've changed and their offense has a whole new look to it. With us, we're the same. They'll know all our plays. But we'll be out there looking at them and saying, what's that they're doing here? What's this play? Why are they doing that? That's a big challenge. |
We like that. There's not one guy on this team who loves the spotlight. So it's fine. We like it that way just fine. |
When you burn a bridge sometimes -- it doesn't matter if it's a significant player on a team, especially a significant player like Kobe -- you might say let bygones be bygones, (but) there's always that underlying, 'Oh, you talked about me,' Me personally, I don't think it'll work out. But who knows? Crazier things have happened. |
You have a lot of guys who came back after injuries like that, they're good but they're not as good as when they left. |
You have to get into the right mind-set. It took me forever when I first started coming off the bench. You have to learn how to stay loose and stay warm. It was tough for me at first. You become used to it. Just like old hat after a while. |
You play too many games of basketball, and you're going to have situations like that happen. You just have to go out and drop it and just play. There's always another day. |