We're just going to come out and play. We know that we're supposed to win all the games, but if we don't, we just have to take the next game and focus on what we did wrong in the game before and just try to do better at the next game.

I have a lot left. There's only four or five good centers in the league and I'm in that number. ... I've been in it for 17 years but I've missed three years because of injury. If you do the math, I've still got three years left. You got that?

Przybilla can't guard me when I'm 27, 37 or 47.

In junior high in Germany I fought kids all the time. I had such a bad temper, I almost got thrown out of school. A few lickings from my dad got me out of that scene. He wore me out with a paddle.

I think I'm the only player who looks at each and every center and says to myself, 'That's barbecued chicken down there.'

Why don't you bring your face up here and let me punch it? Then you can tell me (if I'm stronger).

I'm sort of like a specialist. I go in, do what I do and every four years, they get tired of me and I have to relocate myself.

Kobe always tried to be a hero. But you know, as the saying goes, a hero ain't nothing but a sandwich.

I'd heard stuff from out there that I was just another player, that I was too young. I wanted to show I could play with anybody.