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" The only thing I'm afraid of is bees. I don't like bees. I'm allergic to them. "
Kobe Bryant
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" The people who truly know me know what I'm like. There have been people who try to say things that aren't fair, and I check them. And then they don't like me because I checked them. "
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" Everything negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise. "
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" I draw from the crowd a lot. "
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" Winning takes precedence over all. There's no gray area. No almosts. "
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" I focus on one thing and one thing only - that's trying to win as many championships as I can. "
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" Pooper scooper? Yeah, I've done it a few times. Every once in a while, you have to. "
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" I don't think a coach becomes the right coach until he wins a championship. "
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" People just don't understand how obsessed I am with winning. "
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" If I panic, everyone else panics. "
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" Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they've taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences. "
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" One thing you gotta know about me is I have absolutely no filter. I have no problem saying what the hell I think of someone. "
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" I don't want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant. "
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" We all know what flopping is when we see it. The stuff that you see is where guys aren't really getting hit at all and are just flailing around like a fish out of water. "
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" The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don't have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years, I haven't had that fear. "
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" It's different from being 21 and you think there's endless amount of opportunities. At 33, the ending is much, much closer. "
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" It's disgusting, but my father taught me when your mouth gets dry, just suck the sweat out of your own jersey. There's no bravado to any of it; it's just a disgusting little trick. "
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" These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess. "
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" I'm extremely willful to win, and I respond to challenges. Scoring titles and stuff like that... it sounds, well, I don't care how it sounds - to me, scoring comes easy. It's not a challenge to me to win the scoring title, because I know I can. "
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" Magic has five championships. I have five championships. I'm pretty sure we both know what we're doing. "
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" At the end of 2003, my game was complete. Shooting, defense, using the dribble, transition, midrange stuff was all there. Then it was about fine-tuning and trying to improve in each area. "
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" If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining to do. "
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" I'm more than comfortable just sitting back and scoring 21, 22 points or whatever and getting 10, 11 assists whatever the case might be. More than comfortable with that. It's just a matter of the pieces that you have around you and what you can do to elevate everybody else. "
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" I'm here. I'm not going anywhere. No matter what the injury - unless it's completely debilitating - I'm going to be the same player I've always been. I'll figure it out. I'll make some tweaks, some changes, but I'm still coming. "
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