You can be mentored by people who aren’t alive.
100%.
Because the story still lives,
these muses are here so it’s important to learn from them.
Because you realize they are people just like us,
they make mistake just like us
You know they say we die twice.
Once when the breath leaves our body, and once...
when the last person we know says our name
And he would be shooting baskets in the dark
because they hadn't even turned the lights on yet.
He'd be there an hour, two hours before everybody.
Everybody would be at breakfast
and he would show up fully sweated out
like he'd just done three hours of workout before anybody did anything.
How much harder will you work in this off season now, to get back to the championship?
I played game with the flu, I played game with 102F fever man.
I was gonna work that hard, every single day.
everyday...
From Lower Merion High School...
mark my words, is going to be unbelievable.
And there you see Kobe Bryant in foreground...
the man many have dubbed the next Michal Jordan.
He wants it so bad he's willing to go to the extreme,
at the age of 34 playing 38 minutes. That's ludicrous.
He just wants to get to the offensive end and go one-on-one.
I'm gonna make his ass work down here.
This man played with the broken finger...
Olympic Champion the United States of America.
Back to back title for the Los Angeles Lakers.
A three-peat and a sweep.
The LA Lakers the 2010 NBA Champions.
but the Lakers need him at the free throw line..
They look at you and stuff and I'm like..
"It's all right, the dad's gonna be all right, would be fine"
As a parent you gotta set the example.
This obstacle cannot define me,
it's not going to be resposible for me stepping away for the game that I love.
I'm gonna step away on my own terms.
We all have sh*t that we go through.
We all have things that obstacles that are on our way at some point or another.
No matter what happens the storm eventually end.
And when the storm does end, you want to make sure that you are ready.
So I've really learned to put one foot in front of the other,
because eventually that storm...
Those times when you get up early and work hard,
those times when you don't feel like working,
you are too tired, you don't want to push yourself, but you do it anyway...
I didn't know if I can do it..
It was my daughter who put things in perspective for me,
Gianna she is not 13 and she was like:
"well...
you always tell us to go for it"
We’re not on this stage just because of talent or ability.
We’re up here because of 4 a.m.
We’re up here because of two-a-days or five-a-days.
We’re up here because we had a dream and let nothing stand in our way.
If anything tried to bring us down,
That's how you have to be if you want to be a winner,
There is just no way around it.
Rest in the end, not in the middle.
My next dream is to be honored one day, for inspiring the next generation of athletes to have a dream,
and never ever rest in the middle.
Uncommon amongst uncommon people.
You couldn't have written this.
Yesterday was supposed to be celebratory day,
and then we got tragic news about Kobe Bryant
and everything changed in a second.
Life is short and it's fragile
and we don't know how many birthdays we have.
And...
if you haven't told someone you love them,
Do it. Tell people you love them.
Call your friends, text your friends. Hug them. Kiss them.
And when I took her to the Lakers game,
we just had so much fun, because it was first time I was seeing
And she had such a great time...
as a father... that's all you want.
No one knows how much time we have.
like she was having such a good time, players would come and say "Hi" to her,
Lebron was talking about her fade-away...
reach and see and spend as much time as we can
with our family and friends and people that we love.
The most important thing in life
is how your career moves and touches those around you.