Do whatever you do intensely.

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?

Leap, and the net will appear.

The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

Well done is better than well said.

A lot of motivational speakers - players, coaches, or whatever - they kind of speak in these kind of age-old mantras, or cliches or whatnot. Kobe was very much not like that.