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"46 Kobe Bryant Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 23 August 1978. Died: 26 January 2020 | Basketball player |

The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.

Inspire Great Important People
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When I have the chance to guard Michael Jordan, I want to guard him. I want him. It’s the ultimate challenge.

Guard Chance Him Ultimate
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Boos don’t block dunks.

Books Block Dunks
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Everything negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.
Everything Pressure Challenges Rise
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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.

Lazy People Speak Language
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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.

Team Deal Rich Athletes
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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.

Anticipate See You Present
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It's different from being 21 and you think there's endless amount of opportunities. At 33, the ending is much, much closer.

Different Endless Much Closer
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If I panic, everyone else panics.
Panic Everyone Else
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These young guys are playing checkers. I’m out there playing chess.

Chess Young Guys Playing
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My parents are my backbone. Still are. They’re the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.

Parents Backbone Still Group
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The important thing is that your teammates have to know you're pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.

Important Important Thing Know Pulling
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I'm reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.

Forward Learn Move Move Forward
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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.

Also Arena Back Chill
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Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they've taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

Camaraderie Differences Everything Great
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Winning takes precedence over all. There's no gray area. No almosts.
Area Gray Gray Area Over
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I focus on one thing and one thing only - that's trying to win as many championships as I can.

Championships Focus I Can Many
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I like playing for the purple and gold. This is where I want to finish up.

Finish Gold Like Playing
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I'm not the most patient of people.
Most Patient People Not
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I don't talk trash often, but when I do, I go for the jugular.

Go Often Talk Trash
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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.

Because Bravery Chord Fail
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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.

Bench Cup Games Handing
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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.

Been Being Case Games
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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.

Able Different Front Game
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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.

Alter Baseball Basketball Control
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If you're afraid to fail, then you're probably going to fail.

Afraid Fail Going Then
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Can I jump over two or three guys like I used to? No. Am I as fast as I used to be? No, but I still have the fundamentals and smarts. That's what enables me to still be a dominant player. As a kid growing up, I never skipped steps. I always worked on fundamentals because I know athleticism is fleeting.

Always Am Because Dominant
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My parents are my backbone. Still are. They're the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.

Backbone Group Only Parents
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Everyone looks at your watch and it represents who you are, your values and your personal style.

Everyone Looks Personal Personal Style
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I draw from the crowd a lot.
Crowd Draw Lot I
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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.

Around Back Case Comfortable
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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.

About Aspect Connect Enjoy
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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.

About Area Complete Defense
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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.

About Absolutely Filter Gotta
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The only thing I'm afraid of is bees. I don't like bees. I'm allergic to them.
Afraid Allergic Bees Like
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I'm extremely willful to win, and I respond to challenges. Scoring titles and stuff like that... it sounds, well, I don't care how it sounds - to me, scoring comes easy. It's not a challenge to me to win the scoring title, because I know I can.

Because Care Challenge Challenges
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Magic has five championships. I have five championships. I'm pretty sure we both know what we're doing.

Both Championships Doing Five
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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.

Athletes Back Biggest Camera
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Eeew, I'd be a little uncomfortable Googling myself. People sit there - and Google themselves? That's kind of weird.

Google Kind Little Myself
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What people see on court is another side of me; it's not me.

Another Court Me People
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It's hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I'm talking to them.

Being Concept Grasp Hard
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I don't think a coach becomes the right coach until he wins a championship.

Becomes Championship Coach He
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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.

Any Disgusting Dry Father
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People just don't understand how obsessed I am with winning.

Am How I Am Just
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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.

Because Been Check Checked
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Pooper scooper? Yeah, I've done it a few times. Every once in a while, you have to.

Done Every Few Once
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Kobe Bryant Quotes & Sayings