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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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He shouldn't have been in the NBA, but we were too cheap to pay for a point guard.
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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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Heroes come and go, but legends are forever.
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There's a difference [between taking a charge and flopping]. We all know what flopping is when we see it. The stuff that you see is where guys aren't really getting hit at all and are just flailing around like a fish out of water. That's kind of like, where are your balls at?
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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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He is a fool who only sees the mischiefs that are past.
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My brain cannot process failure... It WILL not process failure
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You have to be able to separate business from the love of the game. There were a lot of decisions made business-wise that I wasn't happy with, and I took a lot of blame over the years. But you have to be able to separate that from the love you have for the game.
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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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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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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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You just try to take it one day at a time, ... You step on the basketball floor and just play. It's fun. I'm comfortable with it.
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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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I like playing for the purple and gold. This is where I want to finish up.
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If I panic, everyone else panics.
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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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