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These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.
Kobe Bryant
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Kobe Bryant
Age: 41 †
Born: 1978
Born: August 23
Died: 2020
Died: January 26
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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.
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Eeew, I'd be a little uncomfortable Googling myself. People sit there - and Google themselves? That's kind of weird.
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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.
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What people see on court is another side of me it's not me.
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I realize now that there's a strength in dunking that I can use to my advantage. When you dunk all the time it isn't as demoralizing to the opponent, but when you dunk at a key moment in the game you can use it to change the momentum.
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Everyting negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.
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I don't just try to score. The challenge is elevating my teammates to be able to win a championship.
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When you have empathy toward your opponents, it helps you destroy them quicker. Because you understand exactly who they are. You understand what buttons to push. You understand if they're insecure, if they fear embarrassment. And you can really hit those buttons to strike a nerve.
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Everyone looks at your watch and it represents who you are, your values and your personal style.
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He shouldn't have been in the NBA, but we were too cheap to pay for a point guard.
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When you love something, you'll always come back to it. You'll always keep asking questions, and finding answers.
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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.
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I grew up in front of these people, and now they are seeing me as an 'older' young man.
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Dear Basketball, From the moment I started rolling my dad's tube socks and shooting imaginary game-winning shots ... I fell in love with you.
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There's a through line that connects all of us.
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Isn't the basis of a democracy to send somebody to Washington to bring something back for you? ... It isn't?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My parents are my backbone. Still are. They're the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.
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