If I panic, everyone else panics.
KOBE BRYANTYou’re my backbone. You’re a blessing. You’re a piece of my heart. You’re the air I breathe. And you’re the strongest person I know, and I’m so sorry for having to put you through this and having to put our family through this.
More Kobe Bryant Quotes
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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 talk trash often, but when I do, I go for the jugular.
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Everything has a purpose. And that purpose has a story that goes along with it. It just depends on what your passion is.
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I’m reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.
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When you start training camp, you’re building the tools necessary to win a championship. You have to have the patience.
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There is power in understanding the journey of others to help create your own.
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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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I don’t think a coach becomes the right coach until he wins a championship.
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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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Everyting negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.
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I don’t have to hear that criticism, that idotic criticism anymore.
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I feel like I just returned a 100-yard kickoff in the last two minutes of the Super Bowl to win it all, only to have my run called back by a flag on the play.
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I’m playing against great players, playing against the best in the world. The competition-that’s what I’ve always wanted.
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Dear Basketball, From the moment I started rolling my dad’s tube socks and shooting imaginary game-winning shots. I fell in love with you.
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You have to be able to separate business from the love of the game.
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When you love something, you’ll always come back to it. You’ll always keep asking questions, and finding answers.
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I don’t want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant.
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I was probably born a scorer, but I was made a winner. Whatever works, whatever wins championships, wins games, that’s what I do.
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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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I wouldn’t say I’m a ball hog. I’m a shooter. I don’t necessarily hog the ball, but I put them up though. I definitely much rather shoot it than pass it. That’s just how I am.
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Once you open your eyes and start looking around you, you start picking up things that are very obvious.
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What does perfection look like to me? Championship rings.
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You can’t go and anticipate what it is that you want to see. You just have to be present. Be where you are.
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What people see on court is another side of me; it’s not me.
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I don’t set out to make a really hot shoe, I set out to make a product that is true to where I am.
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Sometimes I do wonder what college would have been like. But I made my decision.
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