A Quote by Julius Randle

One of the things I learned from Kobe: You focus on what you're dealing with now. — © Julius Randle
One of the things I learned from Kobe: You focus on what you're dealing with now.
I learned that in dealing with things, you spent much more time and energy in dealing with people than in dealing with things.
I play a lot of characters where I don't even speak in my own voice. I learned about focus and I learned to trust that things can work when they're not heightened and that it's interesting when things are pared down.
For the most part you are dealing with jealousy, you are dealing with love, you're dealing with hatred, you are dealing with revenge and all of these sort of classic things.
If everyone had a superpower, Kobe would be the Hulk. Kobe could take on a whole team by himself and he's willing to do that. So, Kobe is like I'll go 5-1, I don't care. I'm still going to win. I put in more work than all five of you guys.
The thing is I'm with Nike and I don't want to wear any other player's shoe. No Giannis or LeBron - I'm not going to wear those, and it narrows what you can wear. But with the Kobe's, who cares because Kobe is Kobe. You can wear his shoe because it's Kobe. They look great, the feel great and it represents something.
I've learned to go out and focus on what I can control, like how hard I work and my attitude and whether I'm happy or not. I've really tried to focus on those things.
I learned how music works dealing with Jermaine Dupri, and I learned how image works dealing with Puff Daddy.
So one of the things that I learned in my old company, GSI Commerce that eBay bought in 2011, was we did a lot of things right, but we also did a lot of things wrong at that company. And so I've really learned focus is everything.
I had the Kobe jersey. I would do the Kobe walk. I would walk around the house doing the Kobe stare-down face. Anything you can name, I was idolizing him, trying to be like him.
I learned long ago to focus on things you can control and don't even pay attention to things you don't.
A man who imagines that because he has a head full of knowledge that he is sufficient for these things had better start learning again. 'Who is sufficient for these things?' What are you doing? You are not simply imparting information, you are dealing with souls, you are dealing with pilgrims on the way to eternity, you are dealing with matters not only of life and death in this world, but with eternal destiny.
Kobe is Kobe. He is one of the best to ever play this game. Given the opportunity, he can embarrass you.
Huge Kobe fan growing up. My dog's name is Kobe.
Kobe is probably an idol for so many players. He was such a great player so you wanted to be like Kobe. He's a legend that never dies.
At the end of the day, the only person to have a better Kobe sneaker game than me is Kobe himself.
I can't play like Kobe, man. There's only one Kobe.
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