Top 100 Quotes About Kobe Bryant
#1. Kobe [Bryant] had the biggest contract for a high school kid. He was the first one to get more than a million a year.
Sonny Vaccaro
#2. He's very knowledgeable. That's the one advantage that I see in Kobe Bryant's career compared to Michael Jordan. Ten years into Kobe Bryant's career, we're seeing a very polished 27-year-old player who's probably got another seven or eight great years ahead of him.
Scottie Pippen
#3. Honestly, I don't listen to nobody else's music but my own. It's kind of like sports to me. You don't see Kobe Bryant at a LeBron James game - he just works on his own game. And that's what I do. I only listen to me, so I can criticize and analyze and all those things.
Lil' Wayne
#4. In my 20s, I could just power through stuff and be fine, but now, in your 40s? It's kind of like Kobe Bryant. He plays basketball a little bit differently than he did when he first started out.
Daniel Wu
#5. When you play with Kobe Bryant, the ball is gonna be with him most of the time, which is understandable.
Steve Nash
#6. Kobe Bryant is the most talented player in the game today; he could do anything.
Alonzo Mourning
#7. Kobe beef is not named after Kobe Bryant. Do not make this mistake.
Chelsea Handler
#8. I'm a musician - I'm always making music. Kobe Bryant is always playing ball. Well, Snoop Dogg is always recording.
Snoop Dogg
#9. Well, it used to be Kobe Bryant ... the second best all time ... now, I have a new favorite player to play against ... my former teammate, LeBron James.
Dwyane Wade
#10. Kobe Bryant is my favorite basketball player. He takes risks. He goes for the shot. He isn't cautious with whatever he does.
Haley Joel Osment
#11. If a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms, that doesn't make them Kobe Bryant.
Barack Obama
#12. I'm much more starstruck by athletes than I am by actors, and I think I saw Kobe Bryant at a basketball party, and I just kind of froze. He's monstrous.
Chris Evans
#13. Kobe Bryant will be better than Michael Jordan
Mark Jackson
#14. Losing Michael Jackson is a handicap. It's the Lakers trying to win a championship without Kobe Bryant.
Tito Jackson
#15. The best quality about Kobe Bryant? You want me to be honest? I don't know. I'll tell you why. I open my arms to everybody. But he never stepped forward for the embrace. So I never really got to know him. I don't know anything about him, and it's kinda sad.
Shaquille O'Neal
#16. Michael Jordan on his worst day is ten times better than Kobe Bryant on his best day
Reggie Miller
#17. I think there's a lot of different ways to win. You've seen teams that win championships with a super-duper star like Kobe Bryant. Those championship teams with Michael Jordan certainly had a great, great player.
Doug Collins
#18. I love dudes who are about winning and that is Kobe Bryant !
Stephen A. Smith
#19. Paternalistic is a very good word. They think they have to look out for these guys? Don't worry about it. Why? Because of history. Kevin Garnett, Tracy McGrady, LeBron James, Kobe Bryant. They did okay.
Sonny Vaccaro
#20. The best player I've ever played against is Kobe Bryant. I have seen him do some stuff that is just unbelievable.
Dirk Nowitzki
#21. I don't want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant.
Kobe Bryant
#22. Right now if you ask me Carmelo Anthony is GONE. He's going to L.A. to play w/Kobe Bryant.
Stephen A. Smith
#23. The best players are always in the thick of the action. (Michael) Jordan did it with the Bulls, (Kobe) Bryant does it with the Lakers and Leo does it here. We want him to stay with us because he's the best and we wouldn't swap him for anyone.
Ronaldinho
#24. 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.
Kobe Bryant
#25. 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.
Kobe Bryant
#26. 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.
Kobe Bryant
#27. 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.
Kobe Bryant
#28. 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.
Kobe Bryant
#29. As far as carrying the torch for the years to come, I don't know. I just want to be the best basketball player I can be.
Kobe Bryant
#30. The party's just getting started. This is where the fun starts.
Kobe Bryant
#31. I don't have to hear that criticism, that idotic criticism anymore.
Kobe Bryant
#32. We're grown ass men, you don't need to be falling all over the place.
Kobe Bryant
#33. If you make it, great. If you miss it, what's there to be afraid of?
Kobe Bryant
#34. I enjoy playing at the heart of it is just a kid who really loves playing the game of basketball.
Kobe Bryant
#35. 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.
Kobe Bryant
#36. I'm playing against great players, playing against the best in the world. The competition-that's what I've always wanted.
Kobe Bryant
#38. Winning takes precedence over all. There's no gray area. No almosts.
Kobe Bryant
#39. 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.
Kobe Bryant
#40. I won't react to something just because I'm supposed to, because I'm an African-American
Kobe Bryant
#42. I'm reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.
Kobe Bryant
#43. I know how to play my guard spot, ... He can worry about the low post.
Kobe Bryant
#44. 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.
Kobe Bryant
#45. I grew up in front of these people, and now they are seeing me as an 'older' young man.
Kobe Bryant
#46. 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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#47. Basketball is my refuge, my sanctuary. I go back to being a kid on the playground. When I get here, it's all good.
Kobe Bryant
#48. Friends come and go but banners hang forever.
Kobe Bryant
#49. It's not a question of if we make the playoffs; we will. And when we get there, I have no fear of anyone.
Kobe Bryant
#50. 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.
Kobe Bryant
#51. I've been watching Messi for some time now, and his ability to decide games and keep possession of the ball is amazing.
Kobe Bryant
#52. It doesn't bother me at all. Do I hold any hard feelings? Not at all, ... Life is too short to sit around and hold grudges. I don't hold any whatsoever.
Kobe Bryant
#53. Love me or hate me. It's one or the other. Always has been. Hate my game, my swagger. Hate my fadeaway, my hunger. Hate that I'm a veteran, a champion. Hate that. Hate it with all your heart. And hate that I'm loved for the exact same reasons.
Kobe Bryant
#54. It doesn't matter to me what place I get traded to. If I was traded someplace - I'd play anywhere.
Kobe Bryant
#55. 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.
Kobe Bryant
#56. I was shooting 45 times a game. What was I supposed to do? Pass it into Chris Mihm & Kwame Brown?
Kobe Bryant
#57. I don't think a coach becomes the right coach until he wins a championship.
Kobe Bryant
#58. I think that game is a testament to what happens when you put no ceiling to what you're capable of doing.
Kobe Bryant
#59. My role is to make sure we're moving in the right direction, getting points, rebounds, steals, assists and providing leadership.
Kobe Bryant
#60. Teach players the game at an early age and stop treating them like cash cows for everyone to profit off of.
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#62. I focus on one thing and one thing only - that's trying to win as many championships as I can.
Kobe Bryant
#63. These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.
Kobe Bryant
#65. It's wonderful for the players. It's a huge challenge and a huge responsibility for us to get our act together, get our butts in gear. Phil isn't going to bail us out because of our mental lapses.
Kobe Bryant
#67. If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining to do.
Kobe Bryant
#68. 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.
Kobe Bryant
#70. 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.
Kobe Bryant
#71. 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.
Kobe Bryant
#72. Heroes come and go, but legends are forever.
Kobe Bryant
#73. Everything negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.
Kobe Bryant
#74. I've got four dogs, and I just don't do dog doo. I'm a diva when it comes to that.
Kobe Bryant
#75. 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.
Kobe Bryant
#76. I was probably born a scorer, but I was made a winner. Whatever works, whatever wins championships, wins games, that's what I do.
Kobe Bryant
#77. The only thing I'm afraid of is bees. I don't like bees. I'm allergic to them.
Kobe Bryant
#78. I love the weather, I love my '63 droptop Impala, I love the 405, and I love my guys.
Kobe Bryant
#79. The motivation for me is just the game itself, just playing the game the right way and trying to win, compete every time I step out there on the floor. That's motivation enough for me to go out there and play well.
Kobe Bryant
#80. 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.
Kobe Bryant
#81. The thing that's most enjoyable to me is not actually beating someone [in the game]. It's the process of coming up with the blueprint of beating that I enjoy. That's a huge flip, so for me I enjoy building. I enjoy coming up.
Kobe Bryant
#82. If you see me in a fight with a bear, pray for the bear
Kobe Bryant
#83. What does perfection look like to me? Championship rings
Kobe Bryant
#84. The guy said NBA players are one in a million, ... I said, 'Man, look, I'm going to be that one in a million.
Kobe Bryant
#85. 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.
Kobe Bryant
#86. 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.
Kobe Bryant
#87. It's just a matter of getting those legs back.
Kobe Bryant
#88. I never tried to prove anything to someone else. I wanted to prove something to myself.
Kobe Bryant
#91. A lot of times things get blown out of proportion in a negative light, especially in the NBA, ... But there are a lot of players in the NBA who really care about the community and want to use their basketball-playing ability for a good cause.
Kobe Bryant
#92. What people see on court is another side of me; it's not me.
Kobe Bryant
#93. 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.
Kobe Bryant
#94. 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.
Kobe Bryant
#95. 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.
Kobe Bryant
#96. Dropkick Murphys get me going, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana ... plus, all the regular hip-hop stuff.
Kobe Bryant
#97. I wear the number 10 Jersey for the US National Team in honour of the Greatest athlete I have ever seen: Messi.
Kobe Bryant
#98. I'm a scorer, not a triple-double player
Kobe Bryant
#99. 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.
Kobe Bryant
#100. 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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