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Kobe Bryant
Age: 41 †
Born: 1978
Born: August 23
Died: 2020
Died: January 26
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Christmas morning, I'm going to open presents with my kids. I'm going to take pictures of them opening the presents. Then I'm going to come to the Staples Center and get ready to work.
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If I panic, everyone else panics.
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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 was probably born a scorer, but I was made a winner. Whatever works, whatever wins championships, wins games, that's what I do.
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There's a much bigger world out there.
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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 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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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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Everyone looks at your watch and it represents who you are, your values and your personal style.
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What does perfection look like to me? Championship rings
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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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You have to rely on others to have success as a group.
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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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I'm just so excited. We all are. We've been waiting for this [the gold medal] for years now and it's finally here. This meant so much. It just felt so good.
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Everyting negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.
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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 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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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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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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