Kobe Bryant Quotes About Basketball

Quotes about: Basketball

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  These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.

  Kobe Bryant

  Funny, Basketball, Sports

• My parents are my backbone. Still are. They're the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.

  Kobe Bryant

  Basketball, Zero, Support You

• Everyting negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.

  Kobe Bryant

  Basketball, Opportunity, Nba

• 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.

  Kobe Bryant

  Basketball, Done, Way

  "Kobe Bryant must stand trial, judge rules". www.cnn.com. October 21, 2003.

• You always have to be on edge. You always have to take every practice, every game, like it is your last.

  Kobe Bryant

  Inspirational, Basketball, Practice

• It's not about the number of hours you practice, it's about the number of hours your mind is present during the practice

  Kobe Bryant

  Basketball, Practice, Nba

• 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.

  Kobe Bryant

  Inspirational, Basketball, Attitude

• I don't want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant.

  Kobe Bryant

  Motivational, Basketball, Want

• 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.

  Kobe Bryant

  Inspirational, Basketball, Softball

• As far as carrying the torch for the years to come, I don't know. I just want to be the best basketball player I can be.

  Kobe Bryant

  Basketball, Player, Years

• Horrible, terrible AAU basketball. It's stupid. It doesn't teach our kids how to play the game at all so you wind up having players that are big and they bring it up and they do all this fancy crap and they don't know how to post. They don't know the fundamentals of the game. It's stupid.

  Kobe Bryant

  Basketball, Stupid, Kids

  "Kobe: Europe's players more skillful" by Arash Markazi, www.espn.com. January 3, 2015.

• I'm playing against great players, playing against the best in the world. The competition-that's what I've always wanted.

  Kobe Bryant

  Basketball, Player, Competition

• I'm reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.

  Kobe Bryant

  Basketball, Moving, Athlete

• The guy said NBA players are one in a million, ... I said, 'Man, look, I'm going to be that one in a million.

  Kobe Bryant

  Inspirational, Basketball, Player

• 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.

  Kobe Bryant

  Inspirational, Basketball, Men

• 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.

  Kobe Bryant

  Inspirational, Basketball, Dream

• Basketball is my refuge, my sanctuary. I go back to being a kid on the playground. When I get here, it's all good.

  Kobe Bryant

  Basketball, Kids, Sanctuary

• I was just letting the shots fly. You know, I don't leave any bullets in the chamber.

  Kobe Bryant

  Basketball, Bullets, Shots

• The party's just getting started. This is where the fun starts.

  Kobe Bryant

  Basketball, Fun, Party

• The Black Mamba collection of watches is me: It is my alter ego, so to speak. As I mentioned before, it is sharp, cutting edge and sleek which are characteristics I try to apply when I’m out there on the basketball court.

  Kobe Bryant

  Inspirational, Basketball, Cutting

  "Kobe Bryant On The Black Mamba". Interview with Benjamin Clymer, www.askmen.com. June 11, 2009.

• 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.

  Kobe Bryant

  Basketball, Dad, Love You

  Source: www.wbur.org

• You just stay patient, that's all.

  Kobe Bryant

  Basketball, Patient

• 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.

  Kobe Bryant

  Basketball, Player, Light

• I'm just right down the middle, man, ... It doesn't matter to me. I'd love him (Phil Jackson) as a coach. It doesn't matter to me. If they want him here, he'll be here. If he wants to come, he'll come, he'll coach and we'll go from there.

  Kobe Bryant

  Basketball, Men, Want

• It doesn't matter to me what place I get traded to. If I was traded someplace - I'd play anywhere.

  Kobe Bryant

  Basketball, Play, Matter

  InsideHoops Interview, www.insidehoops.com. February 15, 2004.

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