"These young guys are playing checkers. I'm..." - Quote by Kobe Bryant

“Winning takes precedence over all. There's no gray area. No almosts.”

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

“I had some shots that I felt like I should've made; I just didn't make them. I'm not going to shoot the ball great every night.”

“Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research. And when you see that you've got problems, all you have to do is examine the historic method used all over the world by others who have problems similar to yours. And once you see how they got theirs straight, then you know how you can get yours straight.”

“Nothing is so contrary to military rules as to make the strength of your army known, either in the orders of the day, in proclamations, or in the newspapers.”

“Close the playand keep the store open nights.”

“The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust.”

“You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.”

“Wisdom is worried for being slow in its speech and expeditious in its actions.”