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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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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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As far as carrying the torch for the years to come, I don't know. I just want to be the best basketball player I can be.
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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.
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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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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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Everyone looks at your watch and it represents who you are, your values and your personal style.
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Once you know what it is in life that you want to do, then the world basically becomes your library. Everything you view, you can view from that perspective, which makes everything a learning asset for you.
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What people see on court is another side of me it's not me.
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My role is to make sure we're moving in the right direction, getting points, rebounds, steals, assists and providing leadership.
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The guy said NBA players are one in a million, ... I said, 'Man, look, I'm going to be that one in a million.
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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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Everybody has a different journey.
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Nobody in the world can guard me one-on-one.
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When you start training camp, you're building the tools necessary to win a championship. You have to have the patience.
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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.
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What does perfection look like to me? Championship rings
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