Kobe Bryant Quotes:- Kobe Bryant (August 23, 1978 – January 26, 2020) was an American professional basketball player. As a shooting guard, Bryant entered the National Basketball Association directly from high school and played his entire 20-season professional career in the league with the Los Angeles Lakers.
Inspirational Kobe Bryant Quotes
The important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.
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I love going one-on-one with someone. That’s what I do. I’ve never lost. It’s a whole different game, just to have them right in front of you and be able to do whatever you want.
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Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.
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Winning takes precedence overall. There’s no gray area. No almosts.
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I focus on one thing and one thing only – that’s trying to win as many championships as I can.
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I’m here. I’m not going anywhere. No matter what the injury – unless it’s completely debilitating – I’m going to be the same player I’ve always been. I’ll figure it out. I’ll make some tweaks, some changes, but I’m still coming.
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I like playing for the purple and gold. This is where I want to finish up.
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The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don’t have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years, I haven’t had that fear.
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Famous Kobe Bryant Quotes
I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.
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There’s been a lot of talk of me being a one-man show but that’s simply not the case. We win games when I score 40 points and we’ve won when I score 10.
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I’ve got four dogs, and I just don’t do dog doo. I’m a diva when it comes to that.
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I don’t talk trash often, but when I do, I go for the jugular.
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In an individual sport, yes, you have to win titles. Baseball’s different. But basketball, hockey? One person can control the tempo of a game, can completely alter the momentum of a series. There’s a lot of great individual talent.
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My parents are my backbone. Still are. They’re the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.
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I’ve played with IVs before, during and after games. I’ve played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don’t miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn’t that serious in the first place.
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The Black Mamba collection of watches is me: It is my alter ego, so to speak. As I mentioned before, it is sharp, cutting edge and sleek which are characteristics I try to apply when I’m out there on the basketball court.
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Greatest Kobe Bryant Quotes
Everyone looks at your watch and it represents who you are, your values and your personal style.
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We all know what flopping is when we see it. The stuff that you see is where guys aren’t really getting hit at all and are just flailing around like a fish out of water.
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I draw from the crowd a lot.
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I’m more than comfortable just sitting back and scoring 21, 22 points or whatever and getting 10, 11 assists whatever the case might be. More than comfortable with that. It’s just a matter of the pieces that you have around you and what you can do to elevate everybody else.
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Twitter is great to connect with fans and be transparent. I enjoy that aspect about it. But really, I’m still trying to figure it out.
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At the end of 2003, my game was complete. Shooting, defense, using the dribble, transition, midrange stuff was all there. Then it was about fine-tuning and trying to improve in each area.
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One thing you gotta know about me is I have absolutely no filter. I have no problem saying what the hell I think of someone.
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It never bothered me when people would say, ‘You only win championships because you’re playing with Shaq.’ It bothered me when he said it.
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Beautiful Kobe Bryant Quotes
I’m extremely willful to win, and I respond to challenges. Scoring titles and stuff like that… it sounds, well, I don’t care how it sounds – to me, scoring comes easy. It’s not a challenge to me to win the scoring title, because I know I can.
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Magic has five championships. I have five championships. I’m pretty sure we both know what we’re doing.
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If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining to do.
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If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.
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What people see on court is another side of me; it’s not me.
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It’s hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I’m talking to them.
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I don’t think a coach becomes the right coach until he wins a championship.
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It’s disgusting, but my father taught me when your mouth gets dry, just suck the sweat out of your own jersey. There’s no bravado to any of it; it’s just a disgusting little trick.
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You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.
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People just don’t understand how obsessed I am with winning.
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Top Kobe Bryant Quotes
Christmas morning, I’m going to open presents with my kids. I’m going to take pictures of them opening the presents. Then I’m going to come to the Staples Center and get ready to work.
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The people who truly know me know what I’m like. There have been people who try to say things that aren’t fair, and I check them. And then they don’t like me because I checked them.
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Can I jump over two or three guys like I used to? No. Am I as fast as I used to be? No, but I still have the fundamentals and smarts. That’s what enables me to still be a dominant player. As a kid growing up, I never skipped steps. I always worked on fundamentals because I know athleticism is fleeting.
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Pooper scooper? Yeah, I’ve done it a few times. Every once in a while, you have to.
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