KB: "I enjoy hearing, 'He's older and who knows how long he can go for.' That does add fuel to it a little bit."
KD: "You have to understand, though, how the world bases its information on what has happened with most everyone else ...
KB: "That has nothing to do with me. I'm not them. Like Michael (Jordan) wasn't supposed to be able to play at the age of 36. Stockton wasn't supposed to be still playing. At the time Kareem (Abdul-Jabbar) was the only guy to be able to play till 40, and they said only big guys can do it – and then John Stockton did it. So it's all in how you take care of your body, and ever since I was young I was very meticulous about taking care of my body and I stayed on it and tried to be healthy. And I think because of that, I feel a lot better now. You run into problems where guys figure it out a little too late, and they try to catch on – and that doesn't work.
KD: "Andrew (Bynum) was just saying to me last month, 'This year, I'm going to start watching what Kobe and Fish (Derek Fisher) do.' "
KB: "Yeah, I've been trying to tell him: You've got to start that right now if you want to have longevity in your career. You've got to pay attention to that now."
KD: "Tim Duncan says his knees hurt all the time."
KB: "That's crazy. What, he's 33? I'm 31. I feel better now than I've felt since I was 26-27."
KD: "That's something. But you must embrace that whole thing on some level, the idea that people can't quite understand you, because you don't want to be the same as everybody else."
KB: "I love it. I love it. It adds fuel to it, man. People measure you by what other players have done and the longevity of their careers and when they started to go on the decline and stuff like that. It adds fuel to the fire."
KD: "So in your own mind, how much longer are you going to play?"
KB: "I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. We'll just keep on going and ride this thing till the wheels fall off."