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" At the end of 2003, my game was complete. Shooting, defense, using the dribble, transition, midrange stuff was all there. Then it was about fine-tuning and trying to improve in each area. "
Trying
Improve
Transition
" Can I jump over two or three guys like I used to? No. Am I as fast as I used to be? No, but I still have the fundamentals and smarts. That's what enables me to still be a dominant player. As a kid growing up, I never skipped steps. I always worked on fundamentals because I know athleticism is fleeting. "
Me
Growing
Growing 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. "
Open
Christmas
Work
" Dropkick Murphys get me going, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana... plus, all the regular hip-hop stuff. "
Red
Hot
Hip-Hop
" Eeew, I'd be a little uncomfortable Googling myself. People sit there - and Google themselves? That's kind of weird. "
People
Uncomfortable
Weird
" Everyone looks at your watch and it represents who you are, your values and your personal style. "
Watch
Who
You
" Everything negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise. "
Challenges
Negative
Opportunity
" I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you. I don't want to understand you. "
Lazy
You
Want
" I don't talk trash often, but when I do, I go for the jugular. "
Often
Go
Talk
" I don't think a coach becomes the right coach until he wins a championship. "
Coach
Championship
He
" I don't want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant. "
Jordan
Want
Only
" I draw from the crowd a lot. "
Draw
Lot
Crowd
" If I panic, everyone else panics. "
Panic
Else
Everyone Else
" I focus on one thing and one thing only - that's trying to win as many championships as I can. "
Many
I Can
Focus
" If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining to do. "
World
Camera
Back
" If you're afraid to fail, then you're probably going to fail. "
Fail
Going
You
" I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I'm like, 'My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don't have it. I just want to chill.' We all have self-doubt. You don't deny it, but you also don't capitulate to it. You embrace it. "
Feet
Insecurity
Fear
" I like playing for the purple and gold. This is where I want to finish up. "
Want
Purple
Up
" I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot. "
Sitting
Water
Win
" I love going one-on-one with someone. That's what I do. I've never lost. It's a whole different game, just to have them right in front of you and be able to do whatever you want. "
Game
Lost
Want
" I'm chasing perfection. "
Chasing
Perfection
" I'm extremely willful to win, and I respond to challenges. Scoring titles and stuff like that... it sounds, well, I don't care how it sounds - to me, scoring comes easy. It's not a challenge to me to win the scoring title, because I know I can. "
Challenges
Challenge
Care
" I'm here. I'm not going anywhere. No matter what the injury - unless it's completely debilitating - I'm going to be the same player I've always been. I'll figure it out. I'll make some tweaks, some changes, but I'm still coming. "
Going
Always
Changes
" I'm more than comfortable just sitting back and scoring 21, 22 points or whatever and getting 10, 11 assists whatever the case might be. More than comfortable with that. It's just a matter of the pieces that you have around you and what you can do to elevate everybody else. "
Comfortable
Back
You
" I'm not the most patient of people. "
Patient
Most
People
" I'm reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose. "
Purpose
Reflect
Sense
" In an individual sport, yes, you have to win titles. Baseball's different. But basketball, hockey? One person can control the tempo of a game, can completely alter the momentum of a series. There's a lot of great individual talent. "
Talent
Baseball
Control
" It never bothered me when people would say, 'You only win championships because you're playing with Shaq.' It bothered me when he said it. "
You
Win
Say
" It's different from being 21 and you think there's endless amount of opportunities. At 33, the ending is much, much closer. "
Much
Ending
You
" It's disgusting, but my father taught me when your mouth gets dry, just suck the sweat out of your own jersey. There's no bravado to any of it; it's just a disgusting little trick. "
Little
Me
Father
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