Kobe Bryant Quotes
Basketball Player
Kobe Bryant was basketball player from the United States
“Everything negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.”— Kobe Bryant
Kobe said this throughout his career when asked about adversity. He meant it literally. He trained at 4 AM because the gym was empty and pain was private. He studied film of opponents until he knew their moves before they did. For Kobe, negative circumstances were not obstacles. They were information about where to push harder.
The Story of Kobe
January 26, 2020
After basketball Kobe built a media company, won an Academy Award for his animated short film Dear Basketball, coached his daughter Gianna's basketball team, and became fluent in four languages. On January 26, 2020, a helicopter carrying Kobe, Gianna, and seven others crashed into a hillside in Calabasas, California. There were no survivors. Kobe was forty-one. Gianna was thirteen. The world stopped. Murals went up on walls from Los Angeles to Manila. The man who had spent his life refusing to lose had no say in how it ended.
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