When You Start Training Camp, You're Building

I'm Not Jumping Through The Gym By Any Means. But I Don't Need To Be Able To Do That In Order To Be A Great Player.

My Brain . . . It Cannot Process Failure. It Will Not Process Failure. Because If I Sit There And Have To Face Myself And Tell Myself, 'you're A Failure' . . . I Think That's Almost Worse Than Death.

Isn't The Basis Of A Democracy To Send Somebody To Washington To Bring Something Back For You? ... It Isn't?

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.

I Grew Up In Front Of These People, And Now They Are Seeing Me As An 'older' Young Man.