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Kobe Bryant

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Kobe Bryant
Age: 41 †
Born: 1978
Born: August 23
Died: 2020
Died: January 26
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I didn't expect this award [the 2008 MVP] would come to me. I'm surprised. I've played pretty well in other seasons. Our team hasn't been as good. Things just fell into place.
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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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I had some shots that I felt like I should've made I just didn't make them. I'm not going to shoot the ball great every night.
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I'm just right down the middle, man, ... It doesn't matter to me. I'd love him (Phil Jackson) as a coach. It doesn't matter to me. If they want him here, he'll be here. If he wants to come, he'll come, he'll coach and we'll go from there.
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I don't talk trash often, but when I do, I go for the jugular.
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There's certain companies that line up with what the brand represents. There are other things that are more investment-focused.
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Friends come and go but banners hang forever.
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What I'm doing right now, I'm chasing perfection... and if I don't get it, I'm going to get this close.
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There's a through line that connects all of us.
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I'm extremely willful to win, and I respond to challenges. Scoring titles and stuff like that... it sounds, well, I don't care how it sounds - to me, scoring comes easy. It's not a challenge to me to win the scoring title, because I know I can.
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I enjoy playing at the heart of it is just a kid who really loves playing the game of basketball.
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Love me or hate me, it's one or the other. Always has been. Hate my game, my swagger. Hate my fadeaway, my hunger. Hate that I'm a veteran. A champion. Hate that. Hate it with all your heart. And hate that I'm loved, for the exact same reasons.
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He [Phil Jackson] is such a basketball genius in terms of the details of the game, the little nuances of the game and the rhythm of the game.
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Sometimes I do wonder what college would have been like. But I made my decision.
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We all can be masters at our craft, but you have to make sacrifices that come along with making that decision.
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Everybody has a different journey.
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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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It's disgusting, but my father taught me when your mouth gets dry, just suck the sweat out of your own jersey. There's no bravado to any of it it's just a disgusting little trick.
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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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