Top 100 Kobe Bryant Quotes
#1. 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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#2. Each moment of my life I was dreaming of how great I could be, and continued working hard. Each time I closed my eyes I could see me shining bright like a sun.
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#3. 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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#4. You'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.
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#5. I don't have to hear that criticism, that idotic criticism anymore.
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#6. If you make it, great. If you miss it, what's there to be afraid of?
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#7. I enjoy playing at the heart of it is just a kid who really loves playing the game of basketball.
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#8. 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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#10. I had some shots that I felt like I should've made; I just didn't make them. I'm not going to shoot the ball great every night.
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#11. I won't react to something just because I'm supposed to, because I'm an African-American
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#13. I'm reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.
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#14. If they want to win right now, I'm all for it. That's all I said the whole time. If you want to wait five years, let me know. My legs aren't as young as they used to be.
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#15. 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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#16. Basketball is my refuge, my sanctuary. I go back to being a kid on the playground. When I get here, it's all good.
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#17. Friends come and go but banners hang forever.
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#18. It's not a question of if we make the playoffs; we will. And when we get there, I have no fear of anyone.
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#19. I realize now that there's a strength in dunking that I can use to my advantage. When you dunk all the time it isn't as demoralizing to the opponent, but when you dunk at a key moment in the game you can use it to change the momentum.
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#20. I think that game is a testament to what happens when you put no ceiling to what you're capable of doing.
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#21. I focus on one thing and one thing only - that's trying to win as many championships as I can.
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#22. These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.
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#24. 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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#25. I didn't expect this award [the 2008 MVP] would come to me. I'm surprised. I've played pretty well in other seasons. Our team hasn't been as good. Things just fell into place.
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#26. My brain ... it cannot process failure. It will not process failure. Because if I sit there and have to face myself and tell myself, 'You're a failure' ... I think that's almost worse than death.
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#27. Heroes come and go, but legends are forever.
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#28. Everything negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.
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#29. 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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#30. 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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#31. 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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#32. The only thing I'm afraid of is bees. I don't like bees. I'm allergic to them.
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#33. I love the weather, I love my '63 droptop Impala, I love the 405, and I love my guys.
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#34. I don't want to say I'll be back at the top of my game because everybody's gonna think I'm crazy and it's the old player not letting go sort of thing, but that's what it's gonna be.
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#35. If you see me in a fight with a bear, pray for the bear
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#36. You have to be able to separate business from the love of the game. There were a lot of decisions made business-wise that I wasn't happy with, and I took a lot of blame over the years. But you have to be able to separate that from the love you have for the game.
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#37. I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you. I don't want to understand you.
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#40. What people see on court is another side of me; it's not me.
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#41. 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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#42. 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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#43. I have my own identity ... The whole Michael thing does drive me nuts sometimes because people won't leave it alone. He's bald, I have hair. He's almost 40, I'm 22. Seriously though, I wish people would let it be and let me just be Kobe.
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#44. 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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#45. I'm just right down the middle, man, ... It doesn't matter to me. I'd love him (Phil Jackson) as a coach. It doesn't matter to me. If they want him here, he'll be here. If he wants to come, he'll come, he'll coach and we'll go from there.
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#46. What I'm doing right now, I'm chasing perfection ... and if I don't get it, I'm going to get this close.
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#47. I don't talk trash often, but when I do, I go for the jugular.
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#48. I've known for a long time that they're a bunch of idiots.
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#49. 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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#50. I'm not jumping through the gym by any means. But I don't need to be able to do that in order to be a great player.
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#51. My brain cannot process failure ... It WILL not process failure
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#52. It really doesn't matter to me. We're just talking about clothes. I can understand what the NBA is trying to do. I love my sneakers, but we're just talking about clothes.
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#53. You just try to take it one day at a time, ... You step on the basketball floor and just play. It's fun. I'm comfortable with it.
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#54. 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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#55. 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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#56. I'm just so excited. We all are. We've been waiting for this [the gold medal] for years now and it's finally here. This meant so much. It just felt so good.
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#57. If you want to make history, you have to do historic things
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#58. If you're afraid to fail, then you're probably going to fail.
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#59. This is an award I couldn't have won on my own. I can't thank these guys enough. These are my guys, these are my brothers.
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#60. 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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#61. Sometimes I do wonder what college would have been like. But I made my decision.
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#62. You always have to be on edge. You always have to take every practice, every game, like it is your last.
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#63. He [Phil Jackson] is such a basketball genius in terms of the details of the game, the little nuances of the game and the rhythm of the game.
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#64. By eloquence I understand those appeals to our moral perceptions that produce emotion as soon as they are uttered. This is the very enthusiasm that is the parent of poetry. Let the same man go to his closet and clothe in numbers conceptions full of the same fire and spirit, and they will be poetry.
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#65. Just got one more than Shaq. You can take that to the bank.
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#66. I was just letting the shots fly. You know, I don't leave any bullets in the chamber.
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#68. 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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#69. Difficulty is a nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who rocks her foster children roughly, but rocks them in strength and athletic proportion. The mind, grappling with great aims and wrestling with mighty impediments, grows by a certain necessity to the stature of greatness.
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#70. Once you open your eyes and start looking around you, you start picking up things that are very obvious.
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#71. For us to be the team that got him that historic 10th championship is special for us.
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#72. I'm focused on the task that lies ahead for us.
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#73. 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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#74. I felt like when we came back from the All-Star break we needed everybody to feel like they were part of the team, ... I'm just trying to do whatever the team needs at any given time.
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#75. 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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#76. 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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#77. The most important thing, the thing that unites all of us, is that we can INSPIRE and CHALLENGE one another TO BE BETTER.
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#78. He is a fool who only sees the mischiefs that are past.
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#79. Horrible, terrible AAU basketball. It's stupid. It doesn't teach our kids how to play the game at all so you wind up having players that are big and they bring it up and they do all this fancy crap and they don't know how to post. They don't know the fundamentals of the game. It's stupid.
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#80. Everyone looks at your watch and it represents who you are, your values and your personal style.
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#81. It's not about the number of hours you practice, it's about the number of hours your mind is present during the practice
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#82. I like playing for the purple and gold. This is where I want to finish up.
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#83. When I'm finished playing, I want people to say, 'He handled this well, he kept his cool.'
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#84. 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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#85. The Kobe 8 is about enhanced performance. It's the most comfortable shoe I have worn. It's simplistic but has an edge to it.
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#86. I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I'm like, 'My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don't have it. I just want to chill.' We all have self-doubt. You don't deny it, but you also don't capitulate to it. You embrace it.
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#87. Nobody in the world can guard me one-on-one,
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#88. Pooper scooper? Yeah, I've done it a few times. Every once in a while, you have to.
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#89. Listen to how everyone is talking about you. You have to use it as fuel for motivation.
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#90. 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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#91. Everybody wants to talk about NBA players being selfish and arrogant and individuals. But what you saw today was a team bonding and facing adversity and coming out with a big win.
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#92. It's hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I'm talking to them.
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#93. I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success. Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.
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#94. Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they've taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.
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#95. The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.
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#96. When you love something, you'll always come back to it. You'll always keep asking questions, and finding answers.
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#97. I don't just try to score. The challenge is elevating my teammates to be able to win a championship.
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#98. There is power in understanding the journey of others to help create your own
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#99. I don't want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant.
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#100. Because we're old as sh*t. What do you want?
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