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The people who truly know me know what I'm like. There have been people who try to say things that aren't fair, and I check them. And then they don't like me because I checked them.

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'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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The hunger [to success] is the same, no matter what it is that you're doing. It's like an unquenchable thirst to learn more, or to feel like you could have done more, and to be brutally honest and self critical, which is very hard to do. It's easy, and human nature is to just blame somebody else. It's very, very hard to self assess.
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The party's just getting started. This is where the fun starts.
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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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