Kobe Bryant Quotes

I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success.

Everyting negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.

It's not about the number of hours you practice, it's about the number of hours your mind is present during the practice

These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.

Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.

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.

Heroes come and go, but legends are forever.

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.

I've known for a long time that they're a bunch of idiots.

The most important thing, the thing that unites all of us, is that we can INSPIRE and CHALLENGE one another TO BE BETTER.

If you want to make history, you have to do historic things

Dropkick Murphys get me going, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana... plus, all the regular hip-hop stuff.

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.

I wear the number 10 Jersey for the US National Team in honour of the Greatest athlete I have ever seen: Messi.

Listen to how everyone is talking about you. You have to use it as fuel for motivation.

If you're afraid to fail, then you're probably going to fail.

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.

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.

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.

You just stay patient, that's all.

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.

If you see me in a fight with a bear, pray for the bear.

When you love something, you'll always come back to it. You'll always keep asking questions, and finding answers.

There is power in understanding the journey of others to help create your own

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.

You can't be held captive by the fear of failure or the fear of what people may say.

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.

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

If you make it, great. If you miss it - what's there to be afraid of?

You have to be true to who you are.

I never tried to prove anything to someone else. I wanted to prove something to myself.

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.

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

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

You always have to be on edge. You always have to take every practice, every game, like it is your last.

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.

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.

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

Basketball is my refuge, my sanctuary. I go back to being a kid on the playground. When I get here, it's all good.

He shouldn't have been in the NBA, but we were too cheap to pay for a point guard.

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.

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.

I wanna be the best, simple and plain

People just don't understand how obsessed I am with winning.

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.

If you don't believe in yourself...nobo dy else will.

Everything has a purpose. And that purpose has a story that goes along with it. It just depends on what your passion is.

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.

I enjoy playing at the heart of it is just a kid who really loves playing the game of basketball.

The Black Mamba collection of watches is me: It is my alter ego, so to speak. As I mentioned before, it is sharp, cutting edge and sleek which are characteristics I try to apply when I’m out there on the basketball court.