Words matter. These are the best Kobe Bryant Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The people who truly know me know what I’m like. There have been people who try to say things that aren’t fair, and I check them. And then they don’t like me because I checked them.
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.
It’s hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I’m talking to them.
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.
I draw from the crowd a lot.
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.
What people see on court is another side of me; it’s not me.
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.
Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.
The only thing I’m afraid of is bees. I don’t like bees. I’m allergic to them.
Everyone looks at your watch and it represents who you are, your values and your personal style.
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.
The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.
Christmas morning, I’m going to open presents with my kids. I’m going to take pictures of them opening the presents. Then I’m going to come to the Staples Center and get ready to work.
It never bothered me when people would say, ‘You only win championships because you’re playing with Shaq.’ It bothered me when he said it.
One thing you gotta know about me is I have absolutely no filter. I have no problem saying what the hell I think of someone.
If I panic, everyone else panics.
I’m here. I’m not going anywhere. No matter what the injury – unless it’s completely debilitating – I’m going to be the same player I’ve always been. I’ll figure it out. I’ll make some tweaks, some changes, but I’m still coming.
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.
Magic has five championships. I have five championships. I’m pretty sure we both know what we’re doing.
Twitter is great to connect with fans and be transparent. I enjoy that aspect about it. But really, I’m still trying to figure it out.
In an individual sport, yes, you have to win titles. Baseball’s different. But basketball, hockey? One person can control the tempo of a game, can completely alter the momentum of a series. There’s a lot of great individual talent.
My parents are my backbone. Still are. They’re the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.
If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining to do.
It’s different from being 21 and you think there’s endless amount of opportunities. At 33, the ending is much, much closer.
