616 Quotes by Kobe Bryant

It's not important to me at all. I really could care less. It's just out of necessity. The team needs me to do it to get through a tough point in the season. It's all that is, no more, no less.

We really hustled, we got after them, played with a high energy level and rebounded the ball extremely well.

He shouldn't have been in the NBA, but we were too cheap to pay for a point guard.

It feels good to finally get one of these close games.

You can't go and anticipate what it is that you want to see. You just have to be present. Be where you are.

For him to just call me and tell me what a great game it was and how proud of me he is meant more to me than the 81 points. That means more to me than even the game itself, because I idolized him as a kid.

We're a really young team that comes into this hostile environment playing against a championship contender. And we didn't play well. I mean, at all. And we found ourselves in a position where we should've won this ballgame.

We're grown ass men, you don't need to be falling all over the place.

It feels good to be mentioned among the elite players who have ever played the game.