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I like to keep people guessing.
Anything can happen with hard work and dedication
I’ve never seen a better coach than Gregg Popovich.
I often do things that surprise me, not to mention others.
I have often wondered why I was never captain of the Lakers.
Kevin Garnett was a great player, but he wasn't Kobe Bryant.
You need lofty goals. Then cement it with a great work ethic.
I would never, ever intentionally hurt a player contractually.
I'm just ultracompetitive. I will be till they put me in the grave.
There are many players who don't measure up to their marketability.
I enjoy winning, but more importantly I enjoy the people I'm around.
I enjoy winning, but more importantly, I enjoy the people I'm around.
I'm a Gemini. Know what that means? There are two very different sides to me.
You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.
The Lakers had been home to me, unlike the home I had grown up and felt apart from.
Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don't think you can, you won't.
There's been so many unbelievable players in Los Angeles, maybe the best of the best.
I'm surprised when the ball doesn't go into the hoop. I think I should make every shot.
I'm not one who likes to be honored, to be honest with you. That's never been who I am.
As a player all you can do is play within yourself, even in the context of a team sport.
You need to possess more than a little nastiness to play basketball at the highest level.
In the playoffs, the best players are supposed to play better. I did. It made no difference.
It's discouraging for me to come out there and watch the lack of fan support for a good team.
Fear of failure, it's the greatest motivational tool. It drives me and drives me and drives me.
I've been so low sometimes and when everyone else would be so high because I didn't like myself.
If you can't see someone's got a game with great personality, you shouldn't be out there looking.
I always wanted the ball in my hands with a game on the line, as I think any real competitor does.
I was disappointed if I didn't have a chance to win a game, and if I had the chance and didn't do it.
I'm still very much a West Virginia boy. I haven't forgotten my roots, because that's really who I am.
I would hope that racism is something that just does not work in this day and age, but I know otherwise.
It was clear to me that I was never going to be the same kind of player I had been. It was time to quit.
The only thing I care about is winning. That's all. If you don't want to win, you don't want to be around me.
Everyone always says you have to be on the best team, the team that wins. Oh, no, no, no. I disagree with that.
When the Warriors are on, my wife keeps away from me. I'm a rabid fan, and my language sometimes is not too good.
Many people, men in particular, just can't not be active. I guess our minds demand that we seek other challenges.
I don't think people fully appreciate the trauma associated with losing. It takes a lot out of you, year after year.
Defensively, from a team standpoint, I didn't feel I played very well. Very rarely was I satisfied with how I played.
As you get older, every chance to win a championship is more crucial, because you are going to have less and less of them.
Don't let talent get in way of team performance. Great players do what's outstanding for team, not what makes them stand out
[The NBA] used to be a small band of basketball groupies. Now there are a lot more corporate-type people working in the league.
Coaches who have been players in the league, they get so attuned to playing how they were successful and who their coaches were.
Coaches who have been players in the league, they get so attuned to playing how they were successful, and who their coaches were.
To have harmony on a team, you need a coach who can get inside the head of every player and get them all pulling in one direction.
The passion to win games, the incredible, focused energy and also the camaraderie of the team were all things that I really loved.
I think, at the end of the day, when you hear the same voice all the time, it goes in one ear and out the other when you're a player.
When it's time for me to walk away from something, I walk away from it. My mind, my body, my conscience tell me that enough is enough.
I don't really want to go into my problems with the team at the time except to say that no one's ever had to pay me to play basketball.
I don't live in the past. And besides, there are too many times in my career to remember specific events, because I played so many games.
A shot is a lever; it's all it is. You don't open a car door differently each time. A car door is efficient - it opens and closes. So is a shot.
Basketball came to me and for some reason it gave me an opportunity to live a life that I didn't dream possible. But it did let me live my dreams.