Kobe Bryant’s Inspirational Quotes

The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.

I’m chasing perfection. So if I chase it long enough, perfection will chase me.

I can’t relate to lazy people. We don’t speak the same language. I don’t understand you. I don’t want to understand you.

Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.

The moment you give up is the moment you let someone else win.

I’d rather be perceived as arrogant than boring.

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

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

The most important thing is you must put everybody on notice that you’re here and you are for real.

Everything negative — pressure, challenges — is all an opportunity for me to rise.

I don’t have a fear of failure—I have a fear of not trying.

I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I’m like, ‘My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don’t have it. I just want to chill.’ We all have self-doubt. You don’t deny it, but you also don’t capitulate to it. You embrace it.

The moment you give up, is the moment you let someone else win.

Be willing to sacrifice anything, but compromise nothing in your quest to be great.

Kobe Bryant’s Inspirational Quotes part 2

Winning takes precedence over all. There’s no gray area. No almost.

The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great at whatever they want to do.

I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success.

The important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.

I don’t want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant.

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

I’ve played with IV’s before, during and after games. I’ve played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don’t miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn’t that serious in the first place.

The most important thing is to try to inspire others so that they can be great in whatever they do.

People just don’t understand how obsessed I am with winning.

I’m extremely willful to win, and I respond to challenges.

Winning takes precedent over all. There’s no gray area. No almost.

Use your success, wealth, and influence to put them in the best position to realize their own dreams and find their true purpose.

When we are saying this cannot be accomplished, this cannot be done, then we are short-changing ourselves. My brain, it cannot process failure. It will not process failure. Because if I sit there and have to face myself and tell myself, ‘You’re a failure’… I think that is a worse fear than death.

People just don’t understand how obsessed I am with winning.

Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.

I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

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.

I don’t want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant.

Once you know what failure feels like, determination chases success.

I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I’m like, ‘My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don’t have it. I just want to chill.’ We all have self-doubt. You don’t deny it, but you also don’t capitulate to it. You embrace it.

Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.

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.

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

I focus on one thing and one thing only – that’s trying to win as many championships as I can.

I create my own path. It was straight and narrow. I looked at it this way: you were either in my way, or out of it.

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 put them in their place.

I don’t want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant.

I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success.

We all have self-doubt. You don’t deny it, but you also don’t capitulate to it. You embrace it.

I can’t relate to lazy people. We don’t speak the same language. I don’t understand you. I don’t want to understand you.

The moment you give up is the moment you let someone else win.