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The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.
Kobe Bryant
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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.
Kobe Bryant
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These young guys are playing checkers. I’m out there playing chess.
Kobe Bryant
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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.
Kobe Bryant
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“Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.”
Kobe Bryant
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“Dedication sees dreams come true.”
Kobe Bryant
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“Be sad. Be mad. Be frustrated. Scream. Cry. Sulk. When you wake up you will think it was just a nightmare only to realize it’s all too real. You will be angry and wish for the day back, the game back THAT play back. But reality gives nothing back and nor should you.”
Kobe Bryant
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“Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.”
Kobe Bryant
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“Have a good time. Life is too short to get bogged down and be discouraged. You have to keep moving. You have to keep going. Put one foot in front of the other, smile and just keep on rolling.”
Kobe Bryant
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“When we are saying this cannot be accomplished, this cannot be done, then we are short-changing ourselves. My brain, it cannot process failure. It will not process failure. Because if I have to sit there and face myself and tell myself ‘you are a failure,’ I think that is almost worse than dying.”
Kobe Bryant
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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.”
Kobe Bryant
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“When you make a choice and say, ‘Come hell or high water, I am going to be this,’ then you should not be surprised when you are that. It should not be something that is intoxicating or out of character because you have seen this moment for so long that … when that moment comes, of course it is here because it has been here the whole time, because it has been [in your mind] the whole time.”
Kobe Bryant
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“Once you know what failure feels like, determination chases success.”
Kobe Bryant
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“I don’t want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant.”
Kobe Bryant
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“The moment you give up, is the moment you let someone else win”
Kobe Bryant
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“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.”
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“I’m reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.”
Kobe Bryant
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“I’m reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.”
Kobe Bryant
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“I’m extremely willful to win, and I respond to challenges. It’s not a challenge to me to win the scoring title, because I know I can.”
Kobe Bryant
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“I create my own path. It was straight and narrow. I looked at it this way: you were either in my way, or out of it.”
Kobe Bryant
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“Pain doesn’t tell you when you ought to stop. Pain is the little voice in your head that tries to hold you back because it knows if you continue you will change.”
Kobe Bryant
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“Use your success, wealth and influence to put them in the best position to realize their own dreams and find their true purpose.”
Kobe Bryant
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“There’s a big misconception where people thinking winning or success comes from everybody putting their arms around each other and singing kumbaya and patting them on the back when they mess up, and that’s just not reality. If you are going to be a leader, you are not going to please everybody. You have to hold people accountable. Even if you have that moment of being uncomfortable.”
Kobe Bryant
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“We can always kind of be average and do what’s normal. I’m not in this to do what’s normal.”
Kobe Bryant
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“Haters are a good problem to have. Nobody hates the good ones. They hate the great ones.”
Kobe Bryant
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“There’s nothing truly to be afraid of, when you think about it … Because I’ve failed before, and I woke up the next morning, and I’m OK. People say bad things about you in the paper on Monday, and then on Wednesday, you’re the greatest thing since sliced bread. I’ve seen that cycle, so why would I be nervous about it happening?”
Kobe Bryant
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