616 Quotes by Kobe Bryant

I don’t f**k with bees, man. Other than that, I’m not afraid of nothing.

If you do not believe in yourself no one will do it for you.

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

I got one more than Shaq. So you can take that to the bank.

We all can be masters at our craft, but you have to make a choice. What I mean by that is, there are inherent sacrifices that come along with that. Family time, hanging out with friends, being a great friend, being a great son, nephew, whatever the case may be. There are sacrifices that come along with making that decision.

I never looked at [basketball] as work. I didn’t realize it was work until my first year in the NBA. When I came around, I was surrounded by other professionals and I thought basketball was going to be everything to them, and it wasn’t. And I was like, ‘This is different.’ I thought everybody was so obsessive about the game like me. It was like, ‘No? Oh, that’s hard work.’ I get it now.

We can always kind of be average and do what’s normal. I’m not in this to do what’s normal.

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.

Haters are a good problem to have. Nobody hates the good ones. They hate the great ones.