Kobe Bryant’s Life Advice Will Change Your Future (MUST WATCH)
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what 17 years old no hunger motivation
desire to be the best possible
basketball player that could be with the
13th pick in the 1996 NBA Draft the
Charlotte Hornets select Kobe Bryant
from Lower Merion High School in
Pennsylvania
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I had a purpose I wanted to be one of
the best basketball players to ever play
and anything else that was outside of
that lane I didn’t have time for I made
that deal with myself at 13 years old so
everything I saw whether it was TV shows
whether it was books I read people I
talked to everything was done to try to
learn how to become a better basketball
player everything everything and so when
you have that point of view then
literally the world becomes your library
to help you to become better at your
craft so at 13 years old I had a I had a
kill list and so you know they used to
do these rankings who Street and Smith
basketball rankings and I was nowhere to
be found
because I was like six four scrawny like
160 pounds soaking wet so I was like 57
on the list and so I will look at 56 55
all the way up to number one who these
players are with club teams they played
for so when we’re going to a you travel
circuit I got to hunt them down right
and so that became my mission in high
school is to check off every other
person all those 56 other names hunt
them down and knock them down you know
it’s you got to look at the reality of
the situation you know like for me it’s
not you know you kind of got to get over
yourself it’s not about you man like
okay you feel embarrassed you’re not
that important like get over yourself
yeah that’s where you go
get over yourself right like you’re
worried about how people may perceive
you and like you’re walking around and
it’s embarrassing because you shot five
air balls get over yourself
right and then after that it’s okay well
why did those air balls happen got it
high school year before we played 35
games max right week in between spaced
out plenty of time to rest and the NBA
is back to back to back to back to back
to back to back I didn’t have the legs
so you look at the shot every shot was
online every shot was online but every
shot was short but I got to get stronger
I got a train differently the weight
training program that I’m doing I got a
tailor it
for an 82-game season so that when the
playoffs come around my legs are
stronger and that ball gets there so I
look at it with rationale and say okay
well the reason why I earbuds because my
legs aren’t there I go home next year
they’ll be there that was it
done done so many guys tell stories
about your work ethic yeah what was
really your work ethic like and for how
long did you stay disciplined well it
means I mean every day I mean since 20
years it was an everyday process and
trying to figure out strengths and
weaknesses for example jumping ability
now my vertical rows of 40 it wasn’t a
46 or 4045 my hands are big but they’re
not massive right so you got to figure
out ways to strengthen them so your
hands are strong enough to be able to
palm a ball and do the things that you
need to do quickness I was quick but not
insanely quick I was fast but not
ridiculously fast right so I had to rely
on skill a lot more I had to rely on
angles a lot more I had to study the
game a lot more and but I enjoyed it
though so like from the time I was I
can’t remember when I started watching
the game I studied the game and it just
never changed the technical question
here how you gonna answer this who would
Shaq be if he had your work ethic he’d
be the greatest of all time if Shaq had
you’ll work may be the greatest moment
of all time by shore he he’d be the
first to tell you that for sure I mean
this guy was a force like I have never
seen I mean it was crazy you know a guy
that size generally guys at that size or
a little timid and they don’t want to be
tall they don’t want to be big and this
dude was he did not care
he was mean he was nasty he was
competitive
he was vindictive I mean he was yeah I
wish he was in a John would have fucking
twelve rings
what is the conversational life were
like with your wife and kids to say
listen this is what I’m doing how did
that conversation go well what the kids
is different so like the communication
with with our children is a Pop’s is
working hard this is the level of
attention to detail you need to have and
everything you do so it’s it’s setting
the example same thing with my wife my
wife’s a stay-at-home wife it’s the
hardest job man so she works really hard
at that I mean it’s you know it’s so her
attention to detail with that as well or
examples for our children and then for
my wife it’s you know she’s as
competitive as I am she’s like listen
man if you’re gonna be out here training
eight hours a day you’re gonna spend
nine months out a year away from your
family you better fucking win the
championship but it’s a balancing act
and that’s the thing that’s important is
understanding that we have to have so
much energy because for like Natalia and
Gianna when they were babies especially
Natalia because it was doing prime years
and I go to practice and I train and
play the game and I come home and I’d be
sore and I’d be tired and she wants to
go swimming she wants me to take her to
the park she wants to just jump on my
back or whatever the case may be you
can’t say I’m too tired I’m going to lay
down mmm that’s not fair she don’t know
what the hell is going on
right and if this was a game you’d suck
it up and play I’ll play games with the
flu I play games with 102 degree fever
man I can’t do that okay all-powerful
you gotta be on man no there’s story
where it’s like you know no one knows
about what you went and played a game
and it was so insane for whatever
reasons no sleep you played a game games
Rosalie Nichols seriously it was like
you know kids Bali had a
certain you know health situation will
have you and you staying up all night
and then you got to go out and perform
because fans don’t know teammates don’t
know nor do they care nor should they
that you’ve been up all night you got to
perform right and so she’s got it’s got
to go to work man you got a lot of
people playing their heart or money to
come watch it before before before sure
a job to be in shape is your job to be
strong enough to perform at that level
every single night as a competitor I’m
not I’m not ducking shit like it’s not
oh my god I’m my back hurts I’m sore
we got to play Vince Carter and Toronto
Raptors tonight we actually had this
happening we had a game against Toronto
in 2000 and Vince was tearing the league
oh my back was jacked jacked
like the perception of that like blood
Kobe’s missing the game against Toronto
Vince Carter because my back was really
spasming but people will be like what
oh he’s ducking Vince excuse me no I
don’t think so so I would be in the
layup line like okay there’s a lot of
days where you know you can rest and
recover today ain’t one of them your
back can bother you any other day that
shit ain’t bothering me today we gonna
you gonna have to see me today yeah oh
man yeah you’re playing against the
Golden State Warriors score is 107 109
you guys are close to getting into the
playoffs
you know exactly what happens in the
game you go up you’re about to take your
shot and on all of a sudden boom you’re
Healy’s happens right
he went and hit the free throws and then
you walked off the stage yeah we got the
surgery God how the hell do you tolerate
that kind of pain you know I tell this
example and I think this is the best way
to explain it you know you have a
hamstring injury pull your hamstring
really really badly you can barely walk
right let alone play anything soccer
basketball volleyball whatever it is
can’t do anything
doctor tells you go home sit up on the
couch
rest your hammy alright stay off of it
don’t get up no sudden movements you’re
at home all of a sudden of a fire breaks
out in the home the kids are upstairs
wife is wherever she may be
you know as shits going down right
I’m willing to bet that you’re gonna
forget about your hamstring you’re gonna
sprint upstairs you’re gonna grab your
kids you’ll make sure your wife’s good
getting out of that house right
hamstring be damned you’re not gonna
fill your hamstring right and the reason
is because the lives of your family are
more important than the injury of your
hamstring and so when the game is more
important than the injury itself you
don’t feel that damaged not at that time
I win the trainer’s room my kids are in
there and you know they’re looking at
you and stuff and I’m looking at them
and I’m like you know all right dad’s
gonna be all right
it’d be fine it’ll be all right you’ll
be all right it’ll be all right
as a parent you gotta set the example
you gotta set the example this this is
another obstacle this obstacle cannot
define me it’s not going to cripple me
it’s not gonna be responsible for me
stepping away for the game that I love
I’m gonna step away on my own terms and
that’s when the decision was made that
you know what I’m doing it don’t it
there’s parents you got to lead by
example if you want your kids to do
whatever it is they want to accomplish
in life you have to show them hmm you
can’t you got a show and that’s what I
tried to do
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