Top 178 Quotes & Sayings by Kobe Bryant - Page 2

I wanna be the best, simple and plain

You just stay patient, that's all.

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.

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.

Everybody has a different journey.

Once you open your eyes and start looking around you, you start picking up things that are very obvious.

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

Sometimes I do wonder what college would have been like. But I made my decision.

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

My brain cannot process failure... It WILL not process failure

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

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.

The party's just getting started. This is where the fun starts.

I don't just try to score. The challenge is elevating my teammates to be able to win a championship.

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

I'm focused on the task that lies ahead for us.

I'm a scorer, not a triple-double player

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

You have to be true to who you are.

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

There's a through line that connects all of us.

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.

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.

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.

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

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'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.

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

We're grown ass men, you don't need to be falling all over the place.

You have to rely on others to have success as a group.

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

To be honest with you, I (would) much rather play basketball and not be famous.

What I'm doing right now, I'm chasing perfection... and if I don't get it, I'm going to get this close.

You can't go and anticipate what it is that you want to see. You just have to be present. Be where you are.

When I'm finished playing, I want people to say, 'He handled this well, he kept his cool.'

Everybody shut up. Let us work.

Teach players the game at an early age and stop treating them like cash cows for everyone to profit off of.

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.

He is a fool who only sees the mischiefs that are past.

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.

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.

Thank god, I'm not from this world.

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

I think that game is a testament to what happens when you put no ceiling to what you're capable of doing.

We all can be masters at our craft, but you have to make sacrifices that come along with making that decision.

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

It doesn't matter to me what place I get traded to. If I was traded someplace - I'd play anywhere.

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

The guy said NBA players are one in a million, ... I said, 'Man, look, I'm going to be that one in a million.

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

It’s not a question of if we make the playoffs; we will. And when we get there, I have no fear of anyone.

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.

You have to go with things that you understand. Businesses that you know.

I don't have to hear that criticism, that idotic criticism anymore.

I'm playing against great players, playing against the best in the world. The competition-that's what I've always wanted.

Friends come and go but banners hang forever.

I was probably born a scorer, but I was made a winner. Whatever works, whatever wins championships, wins games, that's what I do.

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.

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.