We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.
These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it.
If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.
I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena.
A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody - somewhere - was practicing more than me.
Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.
I don't want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant.
I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.
I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate.
I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.
The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.
I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.
I've never been afraid to fail.
There is no 'i' in team but there is in win.
I never thought a role model should be negative.
A lot of late nights in the gym, a lot of early mornings, especially when your friends are going out, you're going to the gym, those are the sacrifices that you have to make if you want to be an NBA basketball player.
To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.
Each group and each youngster is different. As a leader or coach, you get to know what they need.
Everybody wants to take responsibility when you win, but when you fail, all these fingers are pointing.
Even though we want huge individual egos, our collective ego is unbelievable.
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