24 Kobe Bryant Quotes to Get You Ready for the Upcoming Season

Last year, we celebrated NBA Legend Kobe Bryant and his legacy by publishing 8 quotes to get in the right mindset to attack the day. For Kobe Day this year, we wanted to take it a step further. "Bean" not only had a legendary career wearing number 8, but he also had another Hall of Fame career in the number 24. So, Here's 24 Kobe quotes to get you ready for the upcoming season!

1. "From the beginning, I wanted to be the best. I had a constant craving, a yearning, to improve and be the best."

2. "If You're afraid to fail, then you're probably going to fail"

3. “Everything negative – pressure, challenges, is all an opportunity for me to rise.”

4. “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.”

5. "After all, greatness is not for everybody"

6. "Dedication makes dreams come true."

7. "My advice is just to focus on each day and have a plan in place of how you want to improve and how you want to get better and you stick to that plan and trust the fact that every day that you stick to the plan it will get you to your end result."

8. "I saw you come in and I wanted you to know that it doesn’t matter how hard you work, that I’m willing to work harder than you."

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

10. "Torches never get passed. You've got to earn that"

11. "We can always kind of be average and do what's normal. I'm not in this to do what's normal"

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

13. “You are responsible for how people remember you, or don’t - so don’t take it lightly.”

14.“Pain doesn’t tell you when you ought to stop. Pain is the little voice in your head that tries to hold you back because it knows if you continue you will change.”

15. “A lot of leaders fail because they don’t have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord.”

16. “Leadership is lonely. I’m not going to be afraid of confrontation to get us to where we need to go.”

17. “I see the beauty in getting up in the morning and being in pain because I know all the hard work that it took to get to this point."

18. “We psych ourselves up too much. Like if you try to talk yourself into, ‘Oh, this is a big moment, this is a big shot,’ you’re putting a lot of pressure on yourself. You shot that shot hundreds and thousands of times. Just shoot another one.”

19. “I never needed any external forces to motivate me.”

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

21. “There’s nothing truly to be afraid of, when you think about it, because I’ve failed before, and I woke up the next morning, and I’m OK.”

22. “You guys know how I am. I don’t forget anything”

23. "May you always remember to enjoy the road, especially when it’s a hard one."

24. "A lot of people say they want to be great, but they’re not willing to make the sacrifices necessary to achieve greatness."

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Push Beyond

Kobe Bryant embodied Dr. Dish's mantra of "Push Beyond" every single day. Through his tireless dedication to the sport, and never-lose attitude, Kobe is respected by everyone in the basketball world. 

If you want to "Push Beyond" and take on this same mindset, Dr. Dish offers a variety of Home training solutions so you can get work up outside of just practice. From professional training with the Dr. Dish Home, to reps on reps with the IC3, we got you covered