Kobe Bryant Quotes

“I'm a scorer, not a triple-double player”

“This is an award I couldn't have won on my own. I can't thank these guys enough. These are my guys, these are my brothers.”

“You have to be true to who you are.”

“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.”

“Eeew, I'd be a little uncomfortable Googling myself. People sit there - and Google themselves? That's kind of weird.”

“It never bothered me when people would say, 'You only win championships because you're playing with Shaq.' It bothered me when he said it.”

“When you start training camp, you're building the tools necessary to win a championship. You have to have the patience.”

“You have to go with things that you understand. Businesses that you know.”

“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.”

“It’s not a question of if we make the playoffs; we will. And when we get there, I have no fear of anyone.”

“Once you open your eyes and start looking around you, you start picking up things that are very obvious.”

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

“You have to rely on others to have success as a group.”