"We're grown ass men, you don't need..." - Quote by Kobe Bryant
We're grown ass men, you don't need to be falling all over the place.
More by Kobe Bryant
“I don't want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant.”
“I felt like when we came back from the All-Star break we needed everybody to feel like they were part of the team, ... I'm just trying to do whatever the team needs at any given time.”
“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.”
More on Maturity
“Middlemarch, the magnificent book which with all its imperfections is one of the few English novels for grown-up people.”
“What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe. It is the honey in my veins that makes my blood thicker, and my soul quieter.”
“Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older.”
More on Responsibility
“Even if a civil society were to be dissolved by the consent of all its members (e.g., if a people inhabiting an island decided to separate and disperse throughout the world), the last murderer remaining in prison would first have to be executed, so that each has done to him what his deeds deserve and blood guilt does not cling to the people for not having insisted upon this punishment; for otherwise the people can be regarded as collaborators in his public violation of justice.”
“No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or an economy of time more valuable. ... Cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible: avoiding occasions of expence (and) avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt ... not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen which we ourselves ought to bear.”
“Anonymity is no excuse for stupidity.”