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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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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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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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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 role is to make sure we're moving in the right direction, getting points, rebounds, steals, assists and providing leadership.
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For us to be the team that got him that historic 10th championship is special for us.
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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 was an idiot when I was a kid.
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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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I wear the number 10 Jersey for the US National Team in honour of the Greatest athlete I have ever seen: Messi.
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I'm focused on the task that lies ahead for us.
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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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I feel like I just returned a 100-yard kickoff in the last two minutes of the Super Bowl to win it all, only to have my run called back by a flag on the play.
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When you love something, you'll always come back to it. You'll always keep asking questions, and finding answers.
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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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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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It doesn't bother me at all. Do I hold any hard feelings? Not at all, ... Life is too short to sit around and hold grudges. I don't hold any whatsoever.
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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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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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Winning takes precedence over all. There's no gray area. No almosts.
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