Top 60 Bryant Quotes

I like to refer to myself as ‘The George Clooney of the Lane Bryant set.’

When you play with Kobe Bryant, the ball is gonna be with him most of the time, which is understandable.

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

I think there’s a lot of different ways to win. You’ve seen teams that win championships with a super-duper star like Kobe Bryant. Those championship teams with Michael Jordan certainly had a great, great player.

Any free agent that would be afraid to play with Kobe Bryant is probably a loser, and I’m glad they wouldn’t come to the team.

I can’t wait for summer in the city! I love all the free activities in the parks that become available to us New Yorkers. Yoga and movie screenings in Bryant Park, concerts in Central Park – there’s so much more available to the New York community in the summer! And everyone just seems to smile more.

2017 saw a slew of big pop and hip-hop records, a number of breakout female singer-songwriters and all-girl bands, and the return of beloved ’60s soul artist Don Bryant and pop star Kesha.

I love Jimmy Bryant, and I love Albert Lee. Roy Clark. Chet Atkins. I love those pickers.

I personally love watching greats like Matt Lauer, Scott Pelly, Howard Cossell, Bryant Gumble and others that can stimulate an intelligent, thoughtful, moving conversation or interview.

I don’t really celebrate victories. Kobe Bryant just kept playing. Michael Jordan just kept playing.

When I got traded to the Lakers in ’97, Kobe Bryant was just a rookie.

The basketball great Kobe Bryant started his own venture-capital firm. LeBron James has rebranded himself as not just an athlete but also an investor and entrepreneur.

Losing Michael Jackson is a handicap. It’s the Lakers trying to win a championship without Kobe Bryant.

I really like Damian Lillard, I like Iman Shumpert’s raps, Stephen Jackson, Allen Iverson and Kobe Bryant. Those are my favorite ones. I like Lonzo Ball, don’t know about him as a rapper yet, but I know he’s cool.

Dez Bryant isn’t a quarterback. He’s not a leader. He’s a talented, high-maintenance wide receiver.

The 1973 team is real special. I had never coached against Bear Bryant. Alabama had never played Notre Dame. It was North against South; the Catholics against the Baptists; both teams were undefeated, and everything was on the line.

A lot of players will tell you, ‘When I was a kid, I watched Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, LeBron, Magic, and I wanted to be just like them.’ For me, it wasn’t like that at all.

Misery loves company. This is a Hollywood soap opera, and I’m not going to be a star in another Bryant soap opera.

Kobe Bryant was the reason I started playing basketball – always was and will be my favorite player of all time. I love the way he could get his shot off, his footwork down in the post, just his determination to be the best player.

In my 20s, I could just power through stuff and be fine, but now, in your 40s? It’s kind of like Kobe Bryant. He plays basketball a little bit differently than he did when he first started out.

As for my state of Mississippi, our governor, Phil Bryant, said the state could not afford the matching funds required to trigger the federal match for Medicaid expansion. We won’t do it even though in 2014, the federal government would pay over $50 for every one dollar Mississippi chips in.

Kevin Garnett was a great player, but he wasn’t Kobe Bryant.

It’s funny: I don’t get to play characters where I wear what I want to wear. With ‘Mad Men,’ if Janie Bryant doesn’t laugh at me, then that outfit doesn’t make it to air.

I love kimonos because you can just throw them on over anything. Ever since I got my first kimono from Lane Bryant in high school and thought, ‘This is amazing; I can wear it with everything!’

If I would compare anybody to Michael Jordan, it would be Kobe Bryant.

People were referring to me as the new Anita Bryant. Anita would get a little jealous.

I think Kobe Bryant was great.

Kobe Bryant is a walking stat himself. He doesn’t have to explain what he brings to the table.

I still start to get panicky each morning before I go on television. I’ll say, ‘I’m in awful shape, something is wrong,’ and if I start to look like I’m going off the deep end, Jimmy Straka, the stage manager, will say, ‘You’re all right. Calm down.’ Then Bryant Gumbel will grab me by the leg or something.

The Laker brand and name itself is fantastic. When you have a guy like Kobe Bryant in that brand also, it takes it out of this world. I think the fact that everybody sees the work ethic this guy has makes them work harder.

I always wanted to be on the same court as Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant.

When I was 12, 13 years old, I fell in love with the game. I saw Kobe Bryant play. I wanted to be a part of it.

Six books after the surprises of ‘Full Dark House,’ the Bryant and May novels continue to stay within the bounds of formula by straining against them in new ways.

Kobe Bryant demands his teammates to be the best every night, and he’s not afraid to challenge them. He’s not afraid to challenge them publicly, he’s not afraid to challenge them in the locker room, and that’s what you need from a leader.

I don’t need no advice from Kobe Bryant.

And as far as guitars go, I loved Jimmy Bryant and Speedy West’s stuff.

Kobe Bryant is one of those guys I never imagined being on the same court with. It was always an aspiration.

Dez Bryant’s a great player. You can’t take that away from him.

Kobe Bryant is my favorite basketball player. He takes risks. He goes for the shot. He isn’t cautious with whatever he does.

Kobe Bryant is better than Michael Jordan. Not more successful. Hasn’t had a bigger economic impact. Hasn’t won more MVPs. Hasn’t won more titles. But he’s a better player.

Kobe Bryant should know how to defend a pick and roll.

Their practice habits are terrific. I’ve been around some really good guys from different teams in terms of bringing it to practice. When I was in San Francisco, Bryant Young was that way. Every practice on it.

I want to be that type of guy – I want to be Kobe Bryant. I want to be Tim Duncan. I want to be Dirk Nowitzki – stay with one team my whole career.

Our coach was absolutely out of his head. He must have read Bear Bryant’s book. We had 78 players out. The first day 35 quit. Twenty quit the second day. We ended with 17 players. It was depressing.

I wore the number 24 in high school my freshman, sophomore year because of him. I wore Kobe Bryant basketball shoes because of Kobe Bryant. Every time I laced up my basketball shoes, I felt like I had Kobe Bryant with me. I had a little part of him – I had his jumper, his fadeaway.

As long as I’ve been at Clemson, there’s not a guy that’s more committed to Clemson than Kelly Bryant. There’s not a better leader. This guy, he’s the epitome of what you want. He’s what you want your son to be like. I love him like a son.

When you’re Kobe Bryant, you’ve got every little young guy coming at you every night, and it’s you who’s still got to carry the team. When he tore his Achilles… I just felt bad. I knew he was going to come back and be Kobe Bryant.

The best quality about Kobe Bryant? You want me to be honest? I don’t know. I’ll tell you why. I open my arms to everybody. But he never stepped forward for the embrace. So I never really got to know him. I don’t know anything about him, and it’s kinda sad.

Most of my stuff comes from Eloquii, Torrid, Lane Bryant – even Target!

The craft of officiating is taught that people come and pay top dollar to see people like Shaquille O’Neal, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, all the stars, and you have to make sure when you blow the whistle against those individuals that it’s a foul that you basically can’t let go.

Part of the reason why Kobe Bryant is such a big inspiration to me is because he was shipped off to the Lakers right out of high school. He went from English class to the Great Western Forum.

Eric Bryant and Ethan Berlin, the creators of ‘Bunk,’ asked me to come get involved in very early process when they wanted to make a game show.

I guess I’ve always been a groupie. My first date was a bull rider called Tommy Lee Bryant. We’d go to the rodeo every Saturday and Sunday. The bull riders were the cool guys.

One of the best features of my career is that I have gotten to meet and work with some of the most stellar people in the business. From Tim Russert and Jim Lehrer to Bryant Gumbel, Andrea Mitchell and Judy Woodruff, I have learned from the leading lights.

Kobe Bryant is a terrific offensive rebounder.

I don’t want to see Kobe Bryant ever leave. If he was 100 years old and still playing, I’d be happy.

I was one of those kids who watched the Bear Bryant Show every Sunday, and every time Alabama played, I was listening on the radio. I’d fight you if you talked bad about Alabama.

I’m much more starstruck by athletes than I am by actors, and I think I saw Kobe Bryant at a basketball party, and I just kind of froze. He’s monstrous.

I sang with Anita Bryant in the Southern Baptist churches.

‘Bunk’ is a comedy game show where, each week, three of my favorite comedians compete in a series of bizarre and meaningless challenges all for my entertainment. Ethan T. Berlin and Eric Bryant created ‘Bunk.’