Kobe Bryant Quotes

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Kobe Bryant

Profession : Basketball Player

Birth : August 23, 1978

The important thing is that your teammates have to know you're pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.

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Can I jump over two or three guys like I used to? No. Am I as fast as I used to be? No, but I still have the fundamentals and smarts. That's what enables me to still be a dominant player. As a kid growing up, I never skipped steps. I always worked on fundamentals because I know athleticism is fleeting.

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The people who truly know me know what I'm like. There have been people who try to say things that aren't fair, and I check them. And then they don't like me because I checked them.

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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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If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining to do.

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The only thing I'm afraid of is bees. I don't like bees. I'm allergic to them.

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What people see on court is another side of me; it's not me.

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Dropkick Murphys get me going, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana... plus, all the regular hip-hop stuff.

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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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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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Twitter is great to connect with fans and be transparent. I enjoy that aspect about it. But really, I'm still trying to figure it out.

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Pooper scooper? Yeah, I've done it a few times. Every once in a while, you have to.

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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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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.

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If I panic, everyone else panics.

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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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I'm not the most patient of people.

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I don't think a coach becomes the right coach until he wins a championship.

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I draw from the crowd a lot.

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At the end of 2003, my game was complete. Shooting, defense, using the dribble, transition, midrange stuff was all there. Then it was about fine-tuning and trying to improve in each area.

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