Kobe Bryant
I write all day and outline stories, a sports mythological universe.Collection: Sports
I was shooting 45 times a game. What was I supposed to do? Pass it into Chris Mihm & Kwame Brown?Collection: Games
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.Collection: Basketball
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.Collection: Basketball
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.Collection: Games
I've been watching Messi for some time now, and his ability to decide games and keep possession of the ball is amazing.Collection: Games
You just stay patient, that's all.Collection: Basketball
You have to be true to who you are.Collection: Being True
When you love something, you'll always come back to it. You'll always keep asking questions, and finding answers.Collection: Asking Questions
Everybody has a different journey.Collection: Journey
We all can be masters at our craft, but you have to make sacrifices that come along with making that decision.Collection: Sacrifice
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.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Hate
Everything has a purpose. And that purpose has a story that goes along with it. It just depends on what your passion is.Collection: Passion
Diligent accumulation of personal wealth is not inherently ungodly so long as it is complemented by equally diligent distribution of personal wealth.Collection: Long
The hunger [to success] is the same, no matter what it is that you're doing. It's like an unquenchable thirst to learn more, or to feel like you could have done more, and to be brutally honest and self critical, which is very hard to do. It's easy, and human nature is to just blame somebody else. It's very, very hard to self assess.Collection: Self
What I'm doing right now, I'm chasing perfection... and if I don't get it, I'm going to get this close.Collection: Perfection
I wanna be the best, simple and plainCollection: Simple
Once you open your eyes and start looking around you, you start picking up things that are very obvious.Collection: Eye
I've known for a long time that they're a bunch of idiots.Collection: Badass
Basketball is my refuge, my sanctuary. I go back to being a kid on the playground. When I get here, it's all good.Collection: Basketball
You can't go and anticipate what it is that you want to see. You just have to be present. Be where you are.Collection: Want
I've pretty much done all I can here and, you know, God will carry me the rest of the way, so I'm pretty comfortable with that.Collection: Basketball
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.Collection: Basketball
Friends come and go but banners hang forever.Collection: Forever
There's a through line that connects all of us.Collection: Lines
I'm a scorer, not a triple-double playerCollection: Player
Only an idiot would doubt my returnCollection: Doubt
I enjoy playing at the heart of it is just a kid who really loves playing the game of basketball.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Basketball
When you have empathy toward your opponents, it helps you destroy them quicker. Because you understand exactly who they are. You understand what buttons to push. You understand if they're insecure, if they fear embarrassment. And you can really hit those buttons to strike a nerve.Collection: Insecure
My brain cannot process failure... It WILL not process failureCollection: Brain
I think that game is a testament to what happens when you put no ceiling to what you're capable of doing.Collection: Thinking
When you start training camp, you're building the tools necessary to win a championship. You have to have the patience.Collection: Winning
I wear the number 10 Jersey for the US National Team in honour of the Greatest athlete I have ever seen: Messi.Collection: Team
I'm playing against great players, playing against the best in the world. The competition-that's what I've always wanted.Collection: Basketball
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.Collection: Children
My role is to make sure we're moving in the right direction, getting points, rebounds, steals, assists and providing leadership.Collection: Basketball
The guy said NBA players are one in a million, ... I said, 'Man, look, I'm going to be that one in a million.Collection: Inspirational
Everybody shut up. Let us work.Collection: Badass
Thank god, I'm not from this world.Collection: Thank God
He is a fool who only sees the mischiefs that are past.Collection: Past
For us to be the team that got him that historic 10th championship is special for us.Collection: Basketball
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.Collection: Basketball
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.Collection: Worn It
There’s a reason why players that have multiple championships have multiple championships. There’s a certain characteristic and an understanding and knowledge and that’s not something that’s easily taught. You kind of have to go through it and it kind of has to be part of your DNA from the beginning.Collection: Player
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.Collection: Basketball
People look at my competitive spirit, and they automatically attach it to the thing that's most similar, most easily recognizable, which is Michael [Jordan's] competitive spirit. I'm different. I enjoy building. I enjoy the process of putting the puzzle together, and then the byproduct of that, the consequence of that, is beating somebody. That becomes the cherry on top, the icing on the cake.Collection: Cake
I grew up in front of these people, and now they are seeing me as an 'older' young man.Collection: Basketball