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My parents were great growing up, they instilled in me the importance of imagination, of curiosity, and understanding that if you want to accomplish something, I'm not just going to sit here and say “yes, you can do whatever you want,” yes, you can, but you have to also put in the work to get there

My father just gave me a hug and said; “Listen, whether you score 0 or score 60, I'm going to love you no matter what.” That is the most important thing that you can say to a child because from there I was like: okay, that gives me all the confidence in the world to fail. I have the security there, but the hell with that I'm scoring 60

From 12 to 14 you went from scoring zero to being the best in the state

It's a simple thing of math. If you want to be a great player, if you play every single day, two, three hours every single day over the course of a year, how much better are you getting? Most kids will play maybe an hour and a half two days a week. Math on that it's not going to get it done. If you're obsessively training 2, 3 hours every single day over a year, over two years, they accelerate you, make quantum leaps

Show up every single day, do the work

I'm saying: “Okay, well, you're trying to attack me, how am I going to attack you? How can I mentally figure out ways to break you down?”

You can do some phenomenal things individually but they'll never reach their full potential unless you do them collectively and you have to figure out how to do that

One thing that I miss is being able to feed off of the energy the instant feedback you get from missing or scoring a shot, winning, or losing a game

What do you think the biggest challenge is for most athletes after they retire? I think it's the fear of starting a new

I have to start again at the base of a mountain and try to climb to the top of this mountain. First of all: What mountain am I climbing? I don't even know what the hell am I going to be doing, and it's very scary

The thing that helped me actually was hurting my Achilles, because that forced me to sit there and say “okay, the day could be today that your career is over at any time when you were playing. Now what do you do? You have these ideas about doing something with your life after basketball but what if today is the day, that's it, now what do you do

The first question I asked, which is the wrong question, is what's the biggest industry I can get into? –money thinking

Why did you start playing basketball? Because I loved it. What do you love to do? Oh, I love to tell stories. All right, let's do that, and then that's where it started

I think stories is what moves the world

The process should be exactly the same whether you win or you lose – you go back, and you look, and you find things that you could have done better, you find things that you done well that worked, figure out how did they work, why did they work, how can you make them work again

You’re a leader, your job is to get the best out of them, even if you know they may not like it at that time

We're down 15 points in the fourth quarter, and that's when you have to collectively look at each other and the spirit of your team must be good, because at that moment is when teams fracture if the energy amongst each other isn't there, that trust isn't there, then you're done

What brings you the most joy right now? Being with my family, that is the most fun, it's just hanging out with them all summer, being able to do things that I couldn't do cuz of training, cuz of season

The definition of greatness is to inspire the people next to you. I think that's what greatness is or should be, it's not something that lives and dies with one person. It’s how can you inspire a person to then in turn inspire another person that then inspires another person and that's how you create something that I think lasts forever. And I think that's our challenge as people – to figure out how our story can impact others and motivate them in a way to create their own greatness

When you make losing exciting, it doesn't discourage you to try and give your best effort

I love talking about greatness and he is the definition of greatness on how he lived his life and how he showed up for his teammates and how he excelled in so many different areas

A lot of times people finish and then they're out of there. Kobe went to me, gave me a handshake, gave me a hug, he said “hey man, thanks so much” and then he went to the two people on my team and he shook both their hands before leaving. And I just thought, you may not think that's a big deal, but most people don't do that

I knew you were watching, and I wanted to show you I was willing to outwork you

You have to know the mistakes that you've made in that game, you have to do the hard stuff and watch that game, and study that game to not make those mistakes over and over again, just because you weren't brave enough to face it

The challenge for me was always compassion and empathy. Cuz you're like, guys let's go get results, shut up, don't complain, I don't want to hear your whining, I don't want to hear it, don't tell excuses, don't tell me how rough the water is, just bring the boat in

Rest at the end, not in the middle

There are a lot of answers that I don't have, even questions that I don't have, but I'm just going to keep going

What does losing feel like to you? It's exciting because it means you have different ways to get better

Nothing is ever perfect, but the challenge is to try to get them as perfect as they can be

One of the things I had to learn is how to get the best out of my teammates and most people think it's a simple thing – pass them the ball – but that's not how you make guys better, you have to really affect their behavior. How do you do that? So I would tell guys when we had back-to-backs – play Monday and play again Tuesday – you can't go out, we got to get rest. So few times I said “All right we'll all go out, we go out together, I'll drink with you, but the next morning I'm banging on your door at 5 in the morning. Let's go. They're not getting up. ‘Where we going?’ I hung out with you, now you come hang out with me, this is what we do, all right let's go. And we're at the gym, we're working out, we hit the bus, we go to practice, we play that night, and they're dead, and they're dead, and they're like “Lesson learned.” Don't let that compromise what we're here to do, this is why we're here, this is why you're here in the first place, and if we're going to win a championship, we have to have that Championship mentality, work ethic, that's it. So you got to show them, “Kobe can do that, and still has the energy to get up, and do this, so I got to meet that same energy”

I don't really think I would describe love as happiness. I think I describe it as a beautiful journey. It has its ups and downs, whether it's in marriage, or whether it's in the career, things are never perfect. But through love you continue to persevere, and you move through them, and then through that storm beautiful sun emerges, but inevitably another storm comes and guess what, you ride that one out too. So I think love is a certain determination and persistence to go through the good times and the bad times with the someone or something that you truly love

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