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Basketball Quotes

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

― Kobe Bryant

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

― Kobe Bryant

"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

"When I have the chance to guard Michael Jordan, I want to guard him. I want him. It’s the ultimate challenge."

― Kobe Bryant

"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"

― Kobe Bryant

"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"

― Kobe Bryant

"My role is to make sure we’re moving in the right direction, getting points, rebounds, steals, assists, and providing leadership."

― Kobe Bryant

"I had to organize things. So I created the ‘Black Mamba.’ So Kobe has to deal with these issues, all the personal challenges. The Black Mamba steps on the court and does what he does. I’m destroying everybody that steps on the court."

― Kobe Bryant

"Magic has five championships. I have five championships. I’m pretty sure we both know what we’re doing."

― Kobe Bryant

"Hi, I’m Kobe Bryant. And I have decided to take my talent to, uh—I have decided to skip college and take my talent to the NBA."

― Kobe Bryant

"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

"If I wanted to play, I’d still be playing for the Lakers. The health thing I could’ve figured out—I just don’t want to play anymore."

― Kobe Bryant

"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

"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

― Michael Jordan

"In basketball - as in life - true joy comes from being fully present in each and every moment, not just when things are going your way."

― Phil Jackson

"The beauty of basketball, like the beauty of anything, is in the eye of the beholder."

― Phil Jackson

"Basketball is a game of habits. If you make the other guy deviate from his habits, you've got him."

― Phil Jackson