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" Everyone looks at your watch and it represents who you are, your values and your personal style. "

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" I'm not the most patient of people. "

" The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do. "

" Eeew, I'd be a little uncomfortable Googling myself. People sit there - and Google themselves? That's kind of weird. "

" Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they've taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We all know what flopping is when we see it. The stuff that you see is where guys aren't really getting hit at all and are just flailing around like a fish out of water. "

" 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. "

" I'm reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose. "

" The only thing I'm afraid of is bees. I don't like bees. I'm allergic to them. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" What people see on court is another side of me; it's not me. "

" Magic has five championships. I have five championships. I'm pretty sure we both know what we're doing. "

" It's different from being 21 and you think there's endless amount of opportunities. At 33, the ending is much, much closer. "

" I'm chasing perfection. "

" I've played with IVs before, during and after games. I've played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don't miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn't that serious in the first place. "

" It's hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I'm talking to them. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you. "

" The people who truly know me know what I'm like. There have been people who try to say things that aren't fair, and I check them. And then they don't like me because I checked them. "

" There's been a lot of talk of me being a one-man show but that's simply not the case. We win games when I score 40 points and we've won when I score 10. "

" 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. "

" Winning takes precedence over all. There's no gray area. No almosts. "

" The important thing is that your teammates have to know you're pulling for them and you really want them to be successful. "

" I draw from the crowd a lot. "