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Kobe Bryant
Age: 41 †
Born: 1978
Born: August 23
Died: 2020
Died: January 26
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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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These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.
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There's been a lot of talk of me being a one-man show but that's simply not the case. We win games when I score 40 points and we've won when I score 10.
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You can't go and anticipate what it is that you want to see. You just have to be present. Be where you are.
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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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Sometimes I do wonder what college would have been like. But I made my decision.
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I don't talk trash often, but when I do, I go for the jugular.
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I've played with IVs before, during and after games. I've played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don't miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn't that serious in the first place.
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Isn't the basis of a democracy to send somebody to Washington to bring something back for you? ... It isn't?
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If I panic, everyone else panics.
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Nobody in the world can guard me one-on-one.
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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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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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He shouldn't have been in the NBA, but we were too cheap to pay for a point guard.
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There is power in understanding the journey of others to help create your own
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A lot of times things get blown out of proportion in a negative light, especially in the NBA, ... But there are a lot of players in the NBA who really care about the community and want to use their basketball-playing ability for a good cause.
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I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you. I don't want to understand you.
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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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Each moment of my life I was dreaming of how great I could be, and continued working hard. Each time I closed my eyes I could see me shining bright like a sun.
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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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