As far as carrying the torch for the years to come, I don't know. I just want to be the best basketball player I can be.
Kobe BryantThe 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.
Kobe BryantThe most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.
Kobe BryantBy eloquence I understand those appeals to our moral perceptions that produce emotion as soon as they are uttered. This is the very enthusiasm that is the parent of poetry. Let the same man go to his closet and clothe in numbers conceptions full of the same fire and spirit, and they will be poetry.
Kobe Bryant