THE MIND OF KOBE BRYANT - CONFIDENCE

be yourself that's it bu bu there's no chemicals no you don't have to contrive anything who are you where are you today what is your story where does that come from the most important thing is you must put everybody on notice that you're here and you're Pharrell I'm not a player that's just gonna come and go I'm not a player that's gonna make an all-star team one time two times I'm here to be an all-time great no it's it's funny like it's to me the mentality is a really simple one in an assistant the confidence comes from preparation you know so when the games on the line I'm not asking myself to do something that I haven't done thousands of times before right so when I prepare I know what I'm capable of doing I know what I'm comfortable doing and I know what I'm not comfortable doing right so in those moments if it looks like ice cold or not nervous it's because I've done it thousands of times before so it's one more time Mike was a great basketball player but I'm Kobe Bryant you're the most important thing I think for players that come after you to understand that things these things are possible you know that you don't want to ever limit your imagination or limit what's possible because people may think you're crazy right but if us as athletes don't think that it's possible to do these things how in the world can we inspire people have you ever questioned your ability not from a physical standpoint the physical stamp I felt like I can always do what I wanted to do mentally up questioning in terms of how am I gonna get these guys on the same page am I going to lead these guys and make sure we get to that next level that that's always been the thing that I've questioned but myself is can I motivate these guys and carry them to another championship I'm saying this cannot be accomplished this cannot be done then we are shortchanging ourselves [Music] I know the baby wolf said he swings big mrs. big saying they were made I have no fear whatsoever max I think the greatest fear that we face is ourselves actually you know I think it's uh it's not anything that's external or anything that's superficial I think the greatest fear you face is yourself because you know we all have dreams and it's very scary sometimes to accept the dream that you have and it's scarier still to say okay I want that it's scary because you're afraid that if you put your heart and soul into it and you fail then how are you gonna feel about yourself right so being fearless means putting yourself out there and going for it no matter what go for it not for anybody else but for yourself there's a element of doubt as far as my game goes and being old age or something like that I don't think that holds any value in fact that I was playing my best basketball quarter the injuries the thing right so we got to see who's right you're gonna show up to play and you're gonna allow the gags with the scrimmage through this drill I'm going to beat you I'm going to let you know I beat you I'm gonna want you to reconsider your professional life choice I had to separate myself because going through that dead time I felt like there's so many things coming at once and just becoming very very confusing I had organized things so I created the Black Mamba so Kobe has to deal with these issues all the personal challenges the Black Mamba steps on court in that's what he does fun every I'm destroying everybody messed up okay some people sit there and say y'all keep talking about Kobe being the greatest player in the game today y'all don't realize that Kobe trying to be arguably the greatest ever your response I get a couple more rings are you going to yeah you know what I won't rest until we do cowbells never blocked my jump shot and especially in the game setting all that doesn't matter when we passed the torch and Larry Bird and I pass it to Michael now here you are the best player on the planet when will you think it's time to pass it on to LeBron those choices never get past you gotta get on has anybody earned it right now on this team I mean when you look out there and you see this young core oh the face of the NBA but to lead this team who's got who's got that killer instinct that it needs to lead the Lakers know because you know that's not a you have to ask that question and of course the advances already there those are things you don't have to ask you know stages happen it's a great feeling to know that you said oh go over yourself you were able to be stable the rain has been shown show him something last game I had 14 points like four minutes back this horn is what I do I just bought my sleeve you scored 81 points which is second only to Wilt Chamberlain's hundred points no one has really come close to your total since people within the 60s including you he went 28 of 46 shooting 18 to 20 18 of 20 free throws you scored 55 in the second half and 28 of your team's final 31 points there's the score book above us that shows the score book and the answer to the trivia question who was the second leading scorer of that game is smoosh Parker so good suit we have four he hit 13 I know why I had to score you won look at the big picture look at the big picture in 2008 when we lost the selfie I was a very very long knife I mean I was really upset angry frustrated sad but I looked at the big picture I said I'm going to then a championship again I'm going to do it it didn't happen this year I hope it happened next year it might not happen next year one of these is going to happen so you play the big patron not get caught up in the frustrations of one moment if you try to take that moment learn from that moment well the reason why I love that series so much is that we went down three games to two against Boston and now you got two games coming home I remember sitting in the locker when they beat the crap out of us to that game so we're sitting in a locker room and it's really really quiet I'm sitting there looking around and we just lost the Celtics in know eight so this is like revenge right they're kicking our butt again right so I sit around I just start laughing I start laughing and then I remember Derek Fisher looked at me Leigh and Lamar looked at me he goes but what is funny I said do they beat the crap crap and say I'm missing the part where that's funny that's it man listen if you start this season and they say you know all you have to do is win two games at home and your NBA champ would you take that that's all we got to do yeah go home be two into four NBA champions all you gotta do is with to get two games a row that's it well take care of the first game and I promise you they're not winning game seven on our home floor is not happening so we all just laughed about it and then we went out and we figured it out but that Game seven was we're down 15 points in the fourth quarter right and that's when you have to collectively look at each other and say you know 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 you're done mmm and we were able to collectively dig deep together and say all right we're gonna figure this thing out Wow and I wasn't playing well I wasn't shooting the ball well at all and so my teammates up and they delivered yes Wow it started from scratch and I'm very I'm very proud and very happy to be a part it's like your team that's know here to start a new generation shag to be the main piece of the puzzle and I'm very excited to go out there and hopefully contribute wherever I the way I can I do myself as being one the best we've ever laced them up but in terms of ranking them I can't possibly imagine because I everything that I do I've learned from the guys have come before me remember when your jersey retirement and I'm walking out and we were in a playoff race and the hunting going south they were walking out and I gave you destiny I love you congratulations everything and I was just happy for you you know but I couldn't help but say you know this night has made a lot sweeter because I know you have four and I have five you know what it means it's a team but what about individually for you he's got one more to share [Applause] [Music] the story goes with that players were just lining up putting chairs up bringing the popcorn just ready there's one kid it's Petty I know but whatever his name is Victor and I remember name is Victor a little bastard would have it he's giving me a hard time about being this foreign kid and your dad's a NBA player and you think you're good but I'm ba ba ba ba ba ba ba alright so we play we played a one-on-one game and it was last way it was like a I don't know I was like one of those like movie series we're like we're like in a knife fight or somebody's like everybody's standing around watching everybody standing around watching and I just devoured the poor kid and kind of you know I'm enjoying the rubble right now so Victor was not the victor yeah Victor had a tough day we really gonna tell me when they go in and out of the game he was squeezing the impression now at that moment he just became about finding some gap where I could elevate and get a good look at the rim if I get a good look at the room then it's just a matter of being not doing the shot down because I know he's not going to jump to contestant [Applause] one second four remaining [Music] that was vastly more complex you know because of the time that was on a clock [Applause] [Applause] came out No came out of nowhere and he was so close to block I mean he was like me a fingernail way you know I mean it was that close and when I released the ball you actually jammed my finger but yeah I think he helped her shot though there's a mess shot and falling away I probably would have shot him flat but when he came to contested I had to get it over I had to get over him had to put my mark on something to say Vince Carter four people had something to say about your 81 points performance let me read this quote to you the only bad thing about it is that younger kids whose minds are easily warped are going to think oh I'm going to go out there and do it instead of the team concept first Vince Carter said this about your 81 point performance when you hear a comment like that especially coming from a guy who's known for you know dropping 50 and Duncan or people but not exactly the most fundamentally sound ball player in the world what thoughts come to your mind well I just really let it going when they're go out you know I think if you know people who are watching the game you know know what that game was about they knew what I had to do to kind of get us back in the game and at the end of the day it's about winning again we want there's nothing else to be said yeah now here's the part that some people might not know about you but I think I know see how I asked you to question in your eyes get narrow and what that says to me is I remember that said that when I see them next time [Applause] you know I just try to use everything I can for motivation that's a tool you know for me to be able to elevate my team to play their best basketball so I try to use a bit of everything when do you look at the score and say alright this is time for me to I'll be offensively it depends who were playing and what I mean by that is there are certain teams that you can demoralize by scoring a lot of points you know what I'm saying so if I come out against a certain team that I know or guilty for styling if I go out there and I scored 20 25 points a field it takes their momentum away Phoenix is not one of those teams yeah I've scored 20 points against them in the quarter 25 points it doesn't do anything in them they just come back now they're in and keep free-flowing to shoot the ball to demoralize them you have to stop them you turn that person I mean not that just you but the guys in the team have sort of you know when people say that about your team just talk about staying in that zone and how you were able to maintain that it's hard man you know there's times where you come out of it and even myself when I come out of it I'd be aware of bringing myself right back right because sometimes you have those emotional outbursts right but then you got to find that Center again because the next play is imminent you're here so the most important thing is really standing the moment staying present that's all the zone is you know whether it's offensive and being in a zone or defensively be in a zone what that really means is that you're simply here in the present and the only thing that matters is what's right in front of you and the trick is how do you do how do you remember what you told me one day in the forum when I first met you you said you were going to be the finish it for me but the greatest player of all time yes you told me that sounds that sounds something no it sounds like something that I would say you said and then you actually said I'm gonna be the Will Smith of the NBA always had ambition I asked you sometimes when you're out there do you feel like Superman you feel like there's a cape on and you can do anything when you're in the zone yes I'm yeah you feel that way sometimes but for the most part you're not I think the best way to describe it is like you know you're your conductor you're conducting things that are going on it's like you're orchestrating this effort we have never seen anything like this this will probably never ever happened you need to go back in there and you might be able to get 80 points and he said yeah we're up 30 tonight though I'll do it another time yeah I just looked at my so you know when the time is right there'll be a time you see some wild do it he looked at me he said man you're crazy and that was that all we have into the warm-up line I felt awful my knees have been bothering me I felt stiff boss onion game starts and I just get one of those zones wasn't for like the basket was this big but it was a different kind of his own it was like a relentless type of result there's Toby trying to move around Bo Peep try to put them up finally shoot you talked about hip being in one of those zone and it's definitely in it right now the halftime I just said I'm gonna come out in a third quarter I'm gonna go after them then I'm not gonna stop and that's exactly right did guys get on my back we've got 44 it was a kind of like that attitude you just refuse to lose your binding means necessary [Applause] [Music] I felt like I was having a special night when Lamar Kent reminded me that I was having a special night and every time out he he come to me and say you can't get 50 the next time I go you just listen you can't get 60 [Applause] [Music] remember the last time he says well go on get a tea then seventy that wasn't something that was out of the realm of possibility in my mind because of the amount of work that I put it yeah that summer I'd really I put a lot of time in Jim put a lot of time on the track backyard run all day can run at a high speed all day long and I'd taken so many shots me I'd my shot though [Applause] so it's like a five my foot stays on the gas there could be James why do have any point I think he'd probably say thank them for me after the game and mashaallah just came up cities lifted and said man you are crazy so you told me Tom we do it and I thought you lost your mind man I can't say that you're that crazy you

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