You must not only have competitiveness but ability, regardless of the circumstance you face, to never quit.

I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

Somewhere behind the athlete you’ve become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back… play for her.

You can’t always be the best. You have to remember that everyone makes mistakes sometimes.

I don’t want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant.

You control your own wins and losses.

There is always going to be a reason why you can’t do something; your job is to constantly look for the reasons why you can achieve your dreams.

The ability to conquer one’s self is no doubt the most precious of all things that sports bestows.

Just believe in yourself. Even if you don’t pretend that you do and, and some point, you will.

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.