Finally Kobe Bryant Had Decided To Retire… Here’s What You Can Learn From His Wisdom Through Kobe Bryant Quotes

Kobe Bryant Quotes #5: If you want to win don't compete. Because once you decide they are worthy of competing with they have already won.

 

Kobe Bryant Quotes #6: We don't quit, we don't cower, we don't run. We endure and conquer.

 

Kobe Bryant Quotes #7: If you're going to be a leader, you're not going to please everybody. You gotta hold people accountable, even if you have that moment of being uncomfortable. 

 

Kobe Bryant Quotes #8: I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I'm like, ‘My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don't have it. I just want to chill.' We all have self-doubt. You don't deny it, but you also don't capitulate to it. You embrace it.

Let's pause at Kobe Bryant Quotes #8 awhile… Did you know that Kobe's previous jersey number is number 8?

Rumors on why he changed his jersey number from 8 to 24.

24 is supposed to mean works hard, as there is 24 hours a day. That's what Kobe said on TNT with the TNT crew.

He changed the number from 8 to 24 after the Lakers lost to the Phoenix Suns after a grueling 7 games in the first round of the 2006 playoffs.

When Kobe was a kid growing up in Italy, his favorite player was an American guy named Mike D'Antoni, who was then a star in the Italian league. Mike D'Antoni's jersey number during that period was 8.

We think Kobe took the number of his childhood idol when he joined the Lakers.

The first-round 7-game series in 2006 was a grueling one, involving an especially nasty cloth-line foul on Kobe by a guy named Raja Bell, who was then ejected and suspended from playing the following game. It was just a nasty, grueling series altogether.

Do you know who the coach of the Suns was at this time?

Yeah, Mike D'Antoni.

Shortly after that series, Kobe announced his number change.

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