Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kobe Bryant

I was just letting the shots fly. You know, I don't leave any bullets in the chamber.

Kobe Bryant

The guy said NBA players are one in a million, ... I said, 'Man, look, I'm going to be that one in a million.

Kobe Bryant

I don't have to hear that criticism, that idotic criticism anymore.

Kobe Bryant

I didn't expect this award [the 2008 MVP] would come to me. I'm surprised. I've played pretty well in other seasons. Our team hasn't been as good. Things just fell into place.

Kobe Bryant

Basketball is my refuge, my sanctuary. I go back to being a kid on the playground. When I get here, it's all good.

Kobe Bryant

Horrible, terrible AAU basketball. It's stupid. It doesn't teach our kids how to play the game at all so you wind up having players that are big and they bring it up and they do all this fancy crap and they don't know how to post. They don't know the fundamentals of the game. It's stupid.

Kobe Bryant

You always have to be on edge. You always have to take every practice, every game, like it is your last.

Kobe Bryant

As far as carrying the torch for the years to come, I don't know. I just want to be the best basketball player I can be.

Kobe Bryant

My parents are my backbone. Still are. They're the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.

Kobe Bryant

Sometimes I do wonder what college would have been like. But I made my decision.

Kobe Bryant

It's not about the number of hours you practice, it's about the number of hours your mind is present during the practice

Kobe Bryant

If you're afraid to fail, then you're probably going to fail.

Kevin Hart

I like playing basketball and going to the gym. I don't box, but I'll ride my bike and go jogging or running in the park. Sometimes my lady and I go hiking.

Kenyon Martin

Aint nobody here think we could get no win but us

Kendrick Lamar

Whatever pressure I feel all comes from me, from within. I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

Les Claypool

Theaters are great. They're designed to sound good, not for basketball.

Lenny Wilkens

I told Zollie Volchok we needed an ultrasound machine and he asked me why we needed music in the locker room.

Lenny Wilkens

I learned early that if I wanted to achieve anything in life, I'd have to do it myself. I learned that I had to be accountable.

Latrell Sprewell

Why would I want to help them (the T -Wolves) win a title? They're not doing anything for me. I'm at risk. I have a lot of risk here. I got my family to feed.

Larry Bird

Basketball was always a game to me. One of the greatest things in life for me was to be able to play what I loved dearly and get paid for it. So it was always a game to me and that's how I perceived everything.

Larry Bird

In the closing seconds of every game, I want the ball in my hands for the last shot - not in anybody else's, not in anybody else's in the world.

Larry Bird

Basketball has been my life and I worked at it so hard because I enjoyed it so much.

Larry Bird

While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.

Larry Bird

Coaches can talk and talk and talk about something, but if you get it on tape and show it to them, it is so much more effective.

Larry Bird

The best basketball announcer is one who allows you to close your eyes.

Larry Bird

You never make any of the shots you never take. 87% of the ones you do take, you'll miss too. I make 110% of my shots.

Larry Bird

What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?

Larry Bird

But it is a black man's game, and it will be forever.

Larry Bird

I like being by myself.

Larry Bird

I'm a firm believer in that you play the way you practice.

Larry Bird

If there was a payment to the bank due, and we needed shoes, she'd get the shoes, and then deal with them guys at the bank. I don't mean she wouldn't pay the bank, but the children always came first.

Larry Bird

As far as playing, I didn't care who guarded me - red, yellow, black. I just didn't want a white guy guarding me, because it's disrespect to my game.

Larry Bird

Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.