Kobe says blaming circumstance is an excuse, every person gets a different puzzle
“The key factor for me wasn’t whether or not I was ready. It was the fact that if I wasn’t ready, I was determined to figure out how to get ready. And ultimately, even if I was ready, I still needed to improve anyway.”
“The work’s not going to stop. It was just a matter of, do you want to come to the league and learn from the best? I’m doing the math in my head. I’m looking at Stockton, how many years is he playing? Drexler, how many years is he playing? MJ, how many years? Hakeem?”
“These are players that I studied growing up. The best way to learn from them is to have that jump off the film, jump off the page, and see it face-to-face. That is the greatest form of education that I could possibly receive.”
“Sounds like excuses to me. You’ve got to figure it out. If you really have an obsession to figure it out, you will figure it out.”
“Every puzzle is constructed differently. Everybody has a different puzzle, man. You’ve just got to figure out your own puzzle.”