Kobe Bryant- Inspirational Video

You can be mentored by people who aren't alive

100%. Because their stories still live. These muses are here. It's important to learn from them

Because you realize there are people just like us. They made mistakes just like us

And they kept going. We can do the same. 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 work

and that's where anybody did anything. How much harder will you work in this offseason now to get back to the championship

I'll push myself to exhaustion. I play games with the flu. I play games with 102 degree fever, man

And I made a promise to myself. I was going to work that hard every single day

When I do retire, I have no regrets. If I could work that hard every day

What would my career be? Lower Merion High School in Pennsylvania

This kid right here, mark my words, is going to be unbelievable. There you see Kobe Bryant in the foreground, the man many have dubbed the next Michael Jordan

He wants it so bad and he willing to go to the extremes at the age of 34 playing 38 minutes Luke he cursed me as much as I am He just wanted to get to the options of me and go one I gonna make it that way man

It was fun to be out there. This man played with a broken finger and won a championship

To Garnett, back to the building! We are Clark Gay

Olympic champion, the United States of America. Back-to-back titles for the Los Angeles Lakers

A three-peat and a sweep. The fourth NBA championship. The NBA Lakers, the 2010 NBA champion

Falls down, and he is hurting. But the Lakers beat him at the free throw line

My family walks in. I had tears in my eyes. And, you know, they're looking at you and stuff, and I'm like, you know, it's all right

Dad's going to be all right. We'll be fine. As a parent, you've got to set the example

This obstacle cannot define me. It's not going to be responsible for me stepping away for the game that I love

I'm going to step away on my own terms. We all have shit that we go through

We all have things that, obstacles that were in our way at some point or another. We all had doubt

But we chose. We chose. Using the darker emotions, the anger or resentment or frustration

Sadness. Using that as a weapon No matter what happens the storm eventually ends And when the storm does end you want to make sure that you ready I really learned to put one foot in front of the other

because eventually that storm passes. Those times when you get up early and you work hard

those times when you don't feel like working, you're too tired, you don't want to push yourself, but you do it anyway

That is actually the dream. I didn't know if I could do it

It was my daughter who kind of put things in perspective for me. Gianna, she's now 13

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 4AM. 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 we used it to make us strong

we were never satisfied never finished we'll never be retired that's how you have to be if

you want to be a winner there's just no way around it rest at the end not in the middle

i took that to heart my next dream is to be honored one day for inspiring the next generation

of athletes to have a dream, sacrifice for it, and never ever rest in the mood

Uncommon amongst uncommon people. A 60-point game. What an action for number 24

You couldn't have ridden this. From the Oscar Wilde TV, dear basketball

And we have a great day We have a great day We have a great day We have a great day Yesterday was supposed to be a 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 to celebrate life

And if you haven't told someone you love them, do it now

Do it. Tell people you love them. Call your friends, text your friends, hug them, kiss them

And when I took it to the Laker game, we just had so much fun because for the first time I was seeing the game through her eyes

And she had such a great time. As a father, you just... That's all you want. That's all you can ask for

No one knows how much time we have. That's why we must live in the moment

We must enjoy the moment. It was her. Like, she was having such a good time

And the players were coming up and saying hi to her. and Brian was talking about her fade away

We must reach and see and spend as much time as we can

with our families and friends and people that we absolutely love. The most important thing is how your career moves and touches those around you

and how it carries you into the next generation. Do you realize that's what makes true greatness

Thank you