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"I know American football. I know a little bit about soccer. I know baseball, I know basketball. But, rugby is a foreign language."
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"We told Stanley Roberts to go on a water diet, and Lake Superior disappeared. Pat Williams When Xavier McDaniel plays against Orlando Wooldridge, it's a coach's dream - X vs O."
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"The guy, Magic Johnson, built a business empire and you don't do that just because you have a pretty smile. The guy is definitely a smart guy, knows what he's doing. He's a basketball genius. So to downplay that and disrespect that, I thought it was stereotyping him way too much."
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"You just try to take it one day at a time, ... You step on the basketball floor and just play. It's fun. I'm comfortable with it."
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"I had some shots that I felt like I should've made; I just didn't make them. I'm not going to shoot the ball great every night."
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"I grew up in front of these people, and now they are seeing me as an 'older' young man."
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"You have to be able to separate business from the love of the game. There were a lot of decisions made business-wise that I wasn't happy with, and I took a lot of blame over the years. But you have to be able to separate that from the love you have for the game."
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"Everybody wants to talk about NBA players being selfish and arrogant and individuals. But what you saw today was a team bonding and facing adversity and coming out with a big win."
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"This is an award I couldn't have won on my own. I can't thank these guys enough. These are my guys, these are my brothers."
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"I felt like when we came back from the All-Star break we needed everybody to feel like they were part of the team, ... I'm just trying to do whatever the team needs at any given time."
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"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."
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"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."
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"I love the weather, I love my '63 droptop Impala, I love the 405, and I love my guys."
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"It's just a matter of getting those legs back."
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"A lot of times things get blown out of proportion in a negative light, especially in the NBA, ... But there are a lot of players in the NBA who really care about the community and want to use their basketball-playing ability for a good cause."
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"I have my own identity ... The whole Michael thing does drive me nuts sometimes because people won't leave it alone. He's bald, I have hair. He's almost 40, I'm 22. Seriously though, I wish people would let it be and let me just be Kobe."
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"He [Phil Jackson] is such a basketball genius in terms of the details of the game, the little nuances of the game and the rhythm of the game."
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"I know how to play my guard spot, ... He can worry about the low post."
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"I'm just so excited. We all are. We've been waiting for this [the gold medal] for years now and it's finally here. This meant so much. It just felt so good."
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