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I was an idiot when I was a kid.

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Kobe Bryant
Age: 41 †
Born: 1978
Born: August 23
Died: 2020
Died: January 26
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What people see on court is another side of me it's not me.
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There's a through line that connects all of us.
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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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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.
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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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Because we're old as sh*t. What do you want?
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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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You have to be true to who you are.
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I'm more than comfortable just sitting back and scoring 21, 22 points or whatever and getting 10, 11 assists whatever the case might be. More than comfortable with that. It's just a matter of the pieces that you have around you and what you can do to elevate everybody else.
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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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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 don't set out to make a really hot shoe, I set out to make a product that is true to where I am.
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One thing you gotta know about me is I have absolutely no filter. I have no problem saying what the hell I think of someone.
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You can't be held captive by the fear of failure or the fear of what people may say.
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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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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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If you want to make history, you have to do historic things
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It's hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I'm talking to them.
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It’s not a question of if we make the playoffs we will. And when we get there, I have no fear of anyone.
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