I think my jump shot could get a lot, lot better. I could become a really big threat out there.
At 7, I was shooting 3s with so much ease that the guys at the neighborhood park were impressed. Michael Jordan was one of the best humans to walk the earth in my eyes, third only to Jesus and my mother.
The NBA is not for everybody. And looking from the outside in like I did last year, it seems so easy from just watching, but on the court it is a whole different level.
People don't realize how talented the NBA is.
I'm not going to lie; listen, I'm nice at basketball.
Kobe can play in any league.
Great shooters are one dribble guys.
He could be dominant - if he played in the WNBA.
You can't really teach rebounding. You can teach how to box out, but rebounding, that's something you've got to have in you.
My best move is probably my pull up jump shot.
I don't think nobody's doubting I can play basketball.
Kevin Garnett was a great player, but he wasn't Kobe Bryant.
There were great European players that were great basketball players that did not make it in the NBA... This is the best league in the world.
My shot-blocking ability, it's really second to none.
The first time I shot the hook, I was in fourth grade, and I was about five feet eight inches tall. I put the ball up and felt totally at ease with the shot. I was completely confident it would go in. I've been shooting it ever since.
That's what people don't understand, that in the NBA these are the best 450 players in the world, in the game of basketball, are in the NBA.
Kobe Bryant is the most talented player in the game today; he could do anything.
Anybody that shoots a hook shot, whatever hand, I jump up and cheer because it's the easiest shot, it's the best tweener shot.
We cut him off and there was nowhere for him to go but out of bounds ... It's still the greatest move I've ever seen in basketball, the all-time greatest.
I was always a hard working basketball player.
A lot of people look at playing overseas as a step down from the NBA. And, yes it is a step down from the NBA money-wise, but there is just as good of talent overseas as in the NBA. Not better talent.
Look at my nine-year career: I've always been close to a point a minute. I've always been a walking bucket.
My greatest strength is my scoring ability. I've scored the ball at every level.
Everybody in the NBA is good. And then you have the really good ones and the great ones.
I loved the game. I loved it from the start. I was always with a basketball. I'd even dribble a basketball when I'd throw out the trash - and I got so that I could do it without spilling the trash.
