“It’s funny. I think a lot of people, a lot of writers, try to take shortcuts in their assignments and just regurgitate what somebody else may have written, you know, instead of truly saying what’s going on," Kobe says. "I'm no different than anybody. Basketball to me, it’s a game that I want to try to be the best at, try to work at as much as possible. But I understand it’s a game. But I'm extremely outgoing. People say, 'He's quiet' and all that stuff. That's crazy. They obviously don't know me. So, I mean, people that know me and people that seen me interact, stuff like that, I'm completely opposite of what they read. And a lot of people actually tell me that. They'll say, 'Man, you're nothing like I thought you were.”

　　“這太有意思了。我想很多人，很多作家，老是想盡辦法在他們的寫作任務中反復其他人可能已經寫過的東西，而不是真實記錄正在發生的一些事情。”科比說，“我跟其他人沒什么差別。籃球對于我來說，是一場我要盡可能努力做到最好的比賽。而我理解那是一場比賽。我是很外向的。人們說我很寡言，那簡直胡說。他們顯然就不了解我嘛。因此，那些了解我，跟我交流的人知道我跟那些報道中的完全不一樣。事實上很多人也會這樣跟我說，‘你跟我想象中的完全不同。”