For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden.
But I think anybody who believes I could force coach Sloan to resign is crazy. He's stronger than that and personally if I said that to him, he'd probably go tell me to go do something.
I think we're a deeper team, a better team, we still have work to do... nothing is guaranteed, but hopefully we got the mentality to play on the road, and we're starting to get our home thing back in order now-if we can do that we'll be just fine.
When I said I retired from basketball playing, I have retired. You will not see me play again. That is a promise.
They changed the floor back to old school. They changed the uniform back to old school. Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school.
Misery loves company. This is a Hollywood soap opera, and I'm not going to be a star in another Bryant soap opera.
If I could have come in for $10m, I would have done that. I've been pretty smart with my money. I'm playing because I want to play this game here - I want the opportunity.
I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
Everything I've been through, everything I'm about to go through in my career and my life, if my family wasn't with me and didn't support me, it would be really tough.
I never felt I had the kind of relationship with Magic that I could just pick up the phone and call him at home.