Kobe Bryant
If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining to do.
The most important thing, the thing that unites all of us, is that we can INSPIRE and CHALLENGE one another TO BE BETTER.Collection: Challenges
Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.Collection: Perseverance
It's not about the number of hours you practice, it's about the number of hours your mind is present during the practiceCollection: Basketball
Heroes come and go, but legends are forever.Collection: Hero
I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success.Collection: Motivational
Everyting negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.Collection: Basketball
I never tried to prove anything to someone else. I wanted to prove something to myself.Collection: Prove
If you don't believe in yourself...nobo dy else will.Collection: Believe
Once you know what it is in life that you want to do, then the world basically becomes your library. Everything you view, you can view from that perspective, which makes everything a learning asset for you.Collection: Perspective
If you want to make history, you have to do historic thingsCollection: Want
There is power in understanding the journey of others to help create your ownCollection: Journey
The party's just getting started. This is where the fun starts.Collection: Basketball
You have to rely on others to have success as a group.Collection: Groups
There's a choice that we have to make as people, as individuals. If you want to be great at something, there's a choice you have to make. We all can be masters at our craft, but you have to make a choice. What I mean by that is, there are inherent sacrifices that come along with that. Family time, hanging out with friends, being a great friend, being a great son, nephew, whatever the case may be. There are sacrifices that come along with making that decision.Collection: Mean
You can't be held captive by the fear of failure or the fear of what people may say.Collection: People
Being a leader, it's the art of trying to find the balance, the right times with each individual and what they need at that moment. It requires looking outward as opposed to looking inside.Collection: Art
You always have to be on edge. You always have to take every practice, every game, like it is your last.Collection: Inspirational
If you make it, great. If you miss it - what's there to be afraid of?Collection: Missing
Listen to how everyone is talking about you. You have to use it as fuel for motivation.Collection: Motivation
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.Collection: Shoes
We're grown ass men, you don't need to be falling all over the place.Collection: Badass
I don't just try to score. The challenge is elevating my teammates to be able to win a championship.Collection: Basketball
When I'm finished playing, I want people to say, 'He handled this well, he kept his cool.'Collection: Basketball
I'm focused on the task that lies ahead for us.Collection: Basketball
Teach players the game at an early age and stop treating them like cash cows for everyone to profit off of.Collection: Player
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.Collection: Inspirational
To be honest with you, I (would) much rather play basketball and not be famous.Collection: Basketball
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.Collection: Sorry
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.Collection: Basketball
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.Collection: Running
I'm not the most patient of people...Collection: People
It’s not a question of if we make the playoffs; we will. And when we get there, I have no fear of anyone.Collection: No Fear
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.Collection: Basketball
He shouldn't have been in the NBA, but we were too cheap to pay for a point guard.Collection: Badass
Sometimes I do wonder what college would have been like. But I made my decision.Collection: Basketball
I was probably born a scorer, but I was made a winner. Whatever works, whatever wins championships, wins games, that's what I do.Collection: Winning
I don't have to hear that criticism, that idotic criticism anymore.Collection: Basketball
I wouldn't say I'm a ball hog. I'm a shooter.Collection: Badass
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.Collection: Thinking
You want a CEO that understands they need to build a team around them that's sharper and smarter than they are.Collection: Team
It doesn't matter to me what place I get traded to. If I was traded someplace - I'd play anywhere.Collection: Basketball
You have to go with things that you understand. Businesses that you know.Collection: Knows
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.Collection: Balls
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.Collection: Basketball
I'm going to be the Will Smith of the NBA.Collection: Nba
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.Collection: Basketball
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.Collection: Basketball
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.Collection: Basketball