Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kobe Bryant

For us to be the team that got him that historic 10th championship is special for us.

Kobe Bryant

Everyone looks at your watch and it represents who you are, your values and your personal style.

Kobe Bryant

In an individual sport, yes, you have to win titles. Baseball's different. But basketball, hockey? One person can control the tempo of a game, can completely alter the momentum of a series. There's a lot of great individual talent.

Kobe Bryant

The party's just getting started. This is where the fun starts.

Kobe Bryant

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

Kobe Bryant

I'm playing against great players, playing against the best in the world. The competition-that's what I've always wanted.

Kobe Bryant

I've pretty much done all I can here and, you know, God will carry me the rest of the way, so I'm pretty comfortable with that.

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

Everyting negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.

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.

Mike Jarvis

The more things we can get kids to do correctly off the court, the more they will do correctly on the court.

Mike Krzyzewski

Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school.

Mike Krzyzewski

I think you're not a human being unless you have doubts and fears.

Mike Krzyzewski

In developing teams, I don't believe in rules. I believe in standards. Rules don't promote teamwork, standards do

Mike Krzyzewski

Defense is one man guarding the ball and four others helping him

Mike Krzyzewski

I always won in my imagination. I always hit the game-winning shot, or I hit the free throw. Or if I missed, there was a lane violation, and I was given another one.

Mike Krzyzewski

I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport.

Mike Krzyzewski

I love practice. It is when a coach exercises the most control over the improvement of his or her team.

Mike Krzyzewski

We lost, and that's the main thing that went wrong,

Mike Krzyzewski

Good sound habits are more important than rules - use concepts.