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Jason Riley: You have been branching off, obviously you’ve developed some great relationships with your teammates but also with other guys that are in the Olympics and we had some inside sources that have told us you had an opportunity to jump in the water with Michael Phelps…

Kobe Bryant: [laughs] Nah, I m not doing that! But I enjoyed watching him swim and you know going to a bunch of different events because that’s really what the Olympics are about, its a celebration of the athlete and having the opportunity to go to different events and seeing them do what they do best was a real treat for me. I mean its like you know its like a kid in a candy store you know you get chance to meet so many different athletes from so many different countries and kind of talk to them about their stories and what got them to this point, also how they train for their particular sport.

David Brickley: And someone like Michael Phelps, you go against 5 different guys on the court, he goes against himself, so its kind of like a whole different beast that im sure you can kind of relate to in a way

KB: Well its always for me, for me sometimes after you have a frustrating game you wish you had been a swimmer or boxer or tennis player [laughing] or something like that in the individual realm but his training schedule is beyond demanding…

DB: I think he eats like 8,000 calories a day…

KB: [smiling] Just that in and of itself is tough to do. Let alone the training he has to do outside of the pool, its a lot of commitment required.

Kevin Figgers: You’re really a big fan of the non-traditional sports, we mentioned swimming and archery and things of that nature what is it about those types of sports outside of the mainstream that intrigue you, Baseball even soccer is big internationally, what is it about the off-color sports that intrigue you so much.

KB: Well you have a certain amount of appreciation for what they do because obviously to get at this elite level there has to be something in them that makes them the best at what they do, whether be it mental, be it physical, be it the preparation, there’s something about them and you know I really came to know some of the synchronized swimmers, some of our equestrian riders, archers, stuff like that as we’re walking to opening ceremonies in Beijing and all of us US athletes are walking together and that’s a great time to get to know some of them and start talking about some of their sports and it was just extremely interesting to me.

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