Kobe Bryant Quotes
"Dedication makes dreams come true.""Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.""If you see me in a fight with a bear, pray for the bear""The moment you give up is the moment you let someone else win.""You have to work hard in the dark to shine in the light.""My role is to make sure we’re moving in the right direction, getting points, rebounds, steals, assists, and providing leadership.""I don’t just try to score. The challenge is elevating my teammates to be able to win a championship.""It’s different from being 21 and you think there’s an endless amount of opportunities. At 33, the ending is much, much closer.""You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled, stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.""I don’t think a coach becomes the right coach until he wins a championship.""The beauty of coaching is growing the players from the ground up. That journey continues.""The odd thing is that I wound up learning more about the world around me by having a singular focus inside of me.""Leadership is lonely. I’m not going to be afraid of confrontation to get us to where we need to go.""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?""Learn to love the hate. Embrace it. Enjoy it. You earned it. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion and everyone should have one about you.""It doesn’t bother me at all. Do I hold any hard feelings? Not at all. Life is too short to sit around and hold grudges. I don’t hold any whatsoever.""Losing is losing. There aren't different degrees of losing. You either win a championship or you're shit. It's very black and white to me.""I focus on one thing and one thing only—that’s trying to win as many championships as I can.""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 okay.""I want to learn how to become the best basketball player in the world. And if I’m going to learn that, I gotta learn from the best. Kids go to school to be doctors or lawyers, so forth and so on and that’s where they study. My place to study is from the be"