Serve, don't lead.

When you start training camp, you're building the tools necessary to win a championship. You have to have the patience.

I'm reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.

Teach players the game at an early age and stop treating them like cash cows for everyone to profit off of.

I grew up in front of these people, and now they are seeing me as an 'older' young man.

I've known for a long time that they're a bunch of idiots.

You can't be held captive by the fear of failure or the fear of what people may say.

Friends come and go but banners hang forever.

As far as carrying the torch for the years to come, I don't know. I just want to be the best basketball player I can be.

Rest at the end, not at the middle.

Everybody shut up. Let us work.

I like playing for the purple and gold. This is where I want to finish up.

Christmas morning, I'm going to open presents with my kids. I'm going to take pictures of them opening the presents. Then I'm going to come to the Staples Center and get ready to work.

If you want to make history, you have to do historic things.

I don't want to say I'll be back at the top of my game because everybody's gonna think I'm crazy and it's the old player not letting go sort of thing, but that's what it's gonna be.

If they want to win right now, I'm all for it. That's all I said the whole time. If you want to wait five years, let me know. My legs aren't as young as they used to be.

I'm just right down the middle, man, ... It doesn't matter to me. I'd love him (Phil Jackson) as a coach. It doesn't matter to me. If they want him here, he'll be here. If he wants to come, he'll come, he'll coach and we'll go from there.

It's hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I'm talking to them.

There's a difference between taking a charge and flopping. We all know what flopping is when we see it. The stuff that you see is where guys aren't really getting hit at all and are just flailing around like a fish out of water. That's kind of like, where are your balls at?

You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.