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Kobe Bryant
Age: 41 †
Born: 1978
Born: August 23
Died: 2020
Died: January 26
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We're grown ass men, you don't need to be falling all over the place.
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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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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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I don't talk trash often, but when I do, I go for the jugular.
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Everyting negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.
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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'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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The guy said NBA players are one in a million, ... I said, 'Man, look, I'm going to be that one in a million.
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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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These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.
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People just don't understand how obsessed I am with winning.
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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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Dear Basketball, From the moment I started rolling my dad's tube socks and shooting imaginary game-winning shots ... I fell in love with you.
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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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I felt like when we came back from the All-Star break we needed everybody to feel like they were part of the team, ... I'm just trying to do whatever the team needs at any given time.
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I've been watching Messi for some time now, and his ability to decide games and keep possession of the ball is amazing.
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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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I was an idiot when I was a kid.
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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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