Quotes from Kobe Bryant

If I panic, everyone else panics.

I'm not the most patient of people.

If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining to do.

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

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.

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

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

There is power in understanding the journey of others to help create your own

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.

Thank god, I'm not from this world.

If you want to make history, you have to do historic things

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.

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

It doesn't bother me at all. Do I hold any hard feelings? Not at all, ... Life is too short to sit around and hold grudges. I don't hold any whatsoever.

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

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.

I draw from the crowd a lot.

It's hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I'm talking to them.

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.

Eeew, I'd be a little uncomfortable Googling myself. People sit there - and Google themselves? That's kind of weird.

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

Magic has five championships. I have five championships. I'm pretty sure we both know what we're doing.

Each moment of my life I was dreaming of how great I could be, and continued working hard. Each time I closed my eyes I could see me shining bright like a sun.

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.