Kobe Bryant famous quotes

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

#Badass #Long #Idiot

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

#Passion #Purpose #Stories

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

#Funny #Basketball #Sports

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.
-- Kobe Bryant

#Art #Leader #Balance

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.
-- Kobe Bryant

#Shoes #Hot

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

#Eye #Obvious

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.
-- Kobe Bryant

#Running #Winning #Play

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

#Want #Where You Are #Anticipate

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

#Badass #Nba #Pay

People look at my competitive spirit, and they automatically attach it to the thing that's most similar, most easily recognizable, which is Michael [Jordan's] competitive spirit. I'm different. I enjoy building. I enjoy the process of putting the puzzle together, and then the byproduct of that, the consequence of that, is beating somebody. That becomes the cherry on top, the icing on the cake.
-- Kobe Bryant

#Cake #People #Together

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

#Basketball #Zero #Support

The thing that's most enjoyable to me is not actually beating someone [in the game]. It's the process of coming up with the blueprint of beating that I enjoy. That's a huge flip, so for me I enjoy building. I enjoy coming up.
-- Kobe Bryant

#Games #Flip #Building

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

#Basketball #Men #Player

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.
-- Kobe Bryant

#Self #Done #Matter

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

#Basketball #Moving #Athlete

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.
-- Kobe Bryant

#Basketball #Cutting #Ego

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

#Missing

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

#Basketball #Fun #Party

I wouldn’t say I’m a ball hog. I’m a shooter. I don’t necessarily hog the ball, but I put them up, though. I definitely much rather shoot it than pass it. That’s just how I am.
-- Kobe Bryant

#Balls #Shooter #Hog

I played T-Mac. I cooked him. Roasted him. Wasn't even close.
-- Kobe Bryant

#Badass #Macs

If you want to make history, you have to do historic things
-- Kobe Bryant

#Want #Historic

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.
-- Kobe Bryant

#Basketball #Done #Way

It really doesn't matter to me. We're just talking about clothes. I can understand what the NBA is trying to do. I love my sneakers, but we're just talking about clothes.
-- Kobe Bryant

#Basketball #Clothes #Talking

You just try to take it one day at a time, ... You step on the basketball floor and just play. It's fun. I'm comfortable with it.
-- Kobe Bryant

#Basketball #Fun #Play

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.
-- Kobe Bryant

#Basketball #Men #Winning

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.
-- Kobe Bryant

#Water #Guy #Stuff

If you see me in a fight with a bear, pray for the bear
-- Kobe Bryant

#Fighting #Bears #Praying

If I panic, everyone else panics.
-- Kobe Bryant

#Panic

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

#Funny #Lazy People #Want

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.
-- Kobe Bryant

#Growing Up #Smart #Kids

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

#Journey #Understanding #Helping

Horrible, terrible AAU basketball. It's stupid. It doesn't teach our kids how to play the game at all so you wind up having players that are big and they bring it up and they do all this fancy crap and they don't know how to post. They don't know the fundamentals of the game. It's stupid.
-- Kobe Bryant

#Basketball #Stupid #Kids

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

#Successful #Important #Teammate

Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.
-- Kobe Bryant

#Perseverance #Hard Work #No Excuses

There’s a reason why players that have multiple championships have multiple championships. There’s a certain characteristic and an understanding and knowledge and that’s not something that’s easily taught. You kind of have to go through it and it kind of has to be part of your DNA from the beginning.
-- Kobe Bryant

#Player #Dna #Understanding

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

#Winning #Games #Winner

Heroes come and go, but legends are forever.
-- Kobe Bryant

#Hero #Forever #Legends

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

#Basketball #Opportunity #Challenges

Winning takes precedence over all. There's no gray area. No almosts.
-- Kobe Bryant

#Winning #Gray Area #Gray

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

#Basketball #Practice #Games

Michael Jackson? He was something more (than one of my favorite entertainers), a true friend. He wasn't just a genius. Above all, he was a good person, who gave so much. He gave people values, he encouraged them to better themselves all the time. He was far deeper and more authentic than people could see. He was misunderstood too many times
-- Kobe Bryant

#True Friend #People #Misunderstood

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

#Basketball #Kids #Sanctuary

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

#No Fear #Have No Fear #Playoffs

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

#Basketball #Practice #Numbers

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

#Basketball #Player #Competition

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.
-- Kobe Bryant

#Basketball #Softball #Athlete

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

#Badass #People #Inspire

I don't want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant.
-- Kobe Bryant

#Motivational #Basketball #Want

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.
-- Kobe Bryant

#Basketball #Attitude #Winning

I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success. Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.
-- Kobe Bryant

#Motivational #Perseverance #Hard Work

My brain cannot process failure... It WILL not process failure
-- Kobe Bryant

#Brain #Process

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

#Basketball #Heart #Kids

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

#Player

We're grown ***** men, you don't need to be falling all over the place.
-- Kobe Bryant

#Badass #Fall #Men

Because we're old as sh*t. What do you want?
-- Kobe Bryant

#Badass #Want

I wouldn't say I'm a ball hog. I'm a shooter.
-- Kobe Bryant

#Badass #Balls #Shooter

I wanna be the best, simple and plain
-- Kobe Bryant

#Simple #Being The Best

I was shooting 45 times a game. What was I supposed to do? Pass it into Chris Mihm & Kwame Brown?
-- Kobe Bryant

#Games #Shooting #Brown

It's just a matter of getting those legs back.
-- Kobe Bryant

#Basketball #Legs #Matter

Everybody shut up. Let us work.
-- Kobe Bryant

#Badass #Shut Up

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

#Prove #Wanted

I won’t react to something just because I’m supposed to, because I’m an African-American
-- Kobe Bryant

#African American

The only thing I'm afraid of is bees. I don't like bees. I'm allergic to them.
-- Kobe Bryant

#Badass #Bees #Allergic

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

#Basketball #Winning #Challenges

I grew up in front of these people, and now they are seeing me as an 'older' young man.
-- Kobe Bryant

#Basketball #Men #People

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

#Perfection #Chasing #Doing Right

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

#Motivation #Talking #Use

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

#People #May #Fear Of Failure

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

#Player #Games #Age

What does perfection look like to me? Championship rings
-- Kobe Bryant

#Perfection #Doe #Looks

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

#Sacrifice #Decision #Crafts

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

#Basketball #Play #Honest

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

#Challenges #Inspire #Important

It's wonderful for the players. It's a huge challenge and a huge responsibility for us to get our act together, get our butts in gear. Phil isn't going to bail us out because of our mental lapses.
-- Kobe Bryant

#Responsibility #Player #Challenges

The Kobe 8 is about enhanced performance. It's the most comfortable shoe I have worn. It's simplistic but has an edge to it.
-- Kobe Bryant

#Shoes #Worn #Performances

Nobody in the world can guard me one-on-one,
-- Kobe Bryant

#World

Thank god, I'm not from this world,
-- Kobe Bryant

#Thank God #World #This World

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.
-- Kobe Bryant

#Games #Different #Want

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

#Believe #Believe In Yourself #Believe In You

My brain . . . it cannot process failure. It will not process failure. Because if I sit there and have to face myself and tell myself, 'You're a failure' . . . I think that's almost worse than death.
-- Kobe Bryant

#Thinking #Brain #Faces

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.
-- Kobe Bryant

#Mean #Son #Sacrifice

Diligent accumulation of personal wealth is not inherently ungodly so long as it is complemented by equally diligent distribution of personal wealth.
-- Kobe Bryant

#Long #Wealth #Accumulation

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.
-- Kobe Bryant

#Children #Wrestling #Greatness

Isn't the basis of a democracy to send somebody to Washington to bring something back for you? ... It isn't?
-- Kobe Bryant

#Democracy #Politics #Bases

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

#Basketball #Lying #Tasks