“I still love to play; I just love the game. It’s something you can play when you’re mad or upset. Even now I will go and I will just shoot and take my mind off things. When I was younger, if I was mad at my parents because they would not let me go out or I was in trouble for something, that’s what I would do. Pick up a basketball and go shoot. They could not stop me from doing that. It’s a little bit of escapism. If you go and you have a ball and a rim, you take yourself somewhere else, in your mind at least.”-KOBE BRYANT
