“I never looked at [basketball] as work. I didn't realize it was work until my first year in the NBA. When I came around, I was surrounded by other professionals, and I thought basketball was going to be everything to them, and it wasn't. And I was like, 'This is different.' I thought everybody was so obsessive about the game like me. It was like, 'No? Oh, that's hard work. I get it now.' ”
"The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do."
- Kobe Bryant
Inspiration
"I don’t want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant."
- Kobe Bryant
Ambition
"Everything negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise."
- Kobe Bryant
Resilience
"I knew what I wanted to accomplish, and I knew how much work it took to achieve those goals. I then put in the work and trusted in it."
- Kobe Bryant
Determination
"The most important thing is to try your best. Even if you fail, if you try everything, you will have no regrets."
- Kobe Bryant
Motivation
"The effort you invest today is the pride you feel tomorrow."
- Unknown
Hard Work
"I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."
- Thomas Jefferson
Hard Work
"The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work."
- Harry Golden
Hard Work
"A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job."
- Michael Larsen
Hard Work
"A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work."
- Colin Powell
Hard Work