Mindset Of a Legend KOBE BRYANT - MAMBA MENTALITY | Quick Motivational Minute

It started in middle school and high school because a lot of the kids I played against were inner city kids and they looked at me like okay, this kid is soft, right, he's from the suburbs of Philadelphia, his dad played in the NBA. he played professionally, he has a DZ, he had it easy, they felt like they could try to be physical or try to intimidate me and do everything they couldn't do well, but now I'm like, okay, you're trying to attack me, how? Am I going to attack you? How can I mentally find ways to bring you down?

How can I show you no? I have the advantage. I ran. Dr. has to put up with the bell. BS on the BS on the three and the Lakers. winning the game uh my dad uh was really influential at a really critical time where I had a summer where I played basketball when I was 10 or 11 and a very prominent summer league in Philadelphia called The Sunny League where my dad played. my uncle played and they were all time greats. Both Chamberlains played in the league, you know, the Ro man plays in the league and here I come playing and I didn't score a point all summer and I didn't score a free throw or a nothing, not a lucky shot, not a breakaway layup, zero points and I remember crying about it, being upset about it, my dad just gave me a hug and said listen if you score 0 score 60, I'll love you no matter what happens, that's it. the most important thing you can say to a child because from then on I said well that gives me all the confidence in the world to fail there I have the confidence but to hell with that I'm scoring 60 let's go straight straight to the here it is three by three saved makes it to the 50 point 60 game is that when you think about that hard work

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started to creep into you at that age where you were failing so miserably I guess that summer I think was when the idea of ​​Understanding a Long Term Vision came about.

It became important because I wasn't going to catch these kids in a week, I wasn't going to catch them in a year, so that's when I sat down and said, "Okay, this is going to take a hit." I want to work first, okay, shoot, okay, let's get this out of the way, let's focus on this half a year, 6 months, do nothing but shoot, after that, okay, create your own shot, then you focus and start. I started creating a menu of things. When I came back the next summer I was a little better, I hit my three-point shot, like just open shots, I didn't miss open shots, I was able to shoot with speed because those kids are a lot more athletic and then the next time I came. back it was a little bit better and then came 14, half of 13 14 uh years and then I was killing everyone and it happened in 2 years and I didn't expect it to happen in 2 years, but it happened because what I had to do What I do It's working on the basics and the fundamentals, they relied on athleticism and their natural ability and because I stuck to the fundamentals, it just caught up with them and then my body, you know, my knees stopped hurting, I grew in my frame, but what does it mean to lose?

I feel like for you uh it's exciting why it's exciting um because it means that you have different um ways to improve there are certain things that you can discover and that you can take advantage of certain weaknesses that were exposed um that you need to shore up right it was exciting I mean it sucks to lose. , true, but at the same time there are answers there if you just look at them, because you get more information from losing than from winning, probably yes, yes, I mean, the answers are there when you win too. you just have to look at them, yeah right, so it's a constant process, it's exciting when you win, it's exciting when you lose, because the process has to be exactly the same, whether you win or lose, you go back and look and find things that you could have done better.

You find things that you have done well and that worked. Find out how they worked. Why did they work? How can you get them working again? Yes, but the hardest thing is facing those things, catching the ball and being aggressive. turns and shoots and Pierce for three what he puts in the basket and Kobe Bry Pierce for three is good Paul Pierce from center we lost three games to two against Boston and now you have two games coming home I remember sitting in the locker room and they also gave us a beating in that game. I said, man, listen, if you start this season and they tell you that you know all you have to do is win two home games in your NBA champion.

Would you accept that? Yes, that's right, that's all we have. to go home, win two, we're NBA champions, all you have to do is win two, two games in a row, that's it, we'll take care of the first game and I promise you they won't win the seventh game on our court. It's not happening, so we all laugh about it and then we go out and figure it out, but in the seventh game we were down 15 points in the fourth quarter and that's when we collectively have to look at each other and say: I know the spirit of your team has to be good because that's when teams fracture, if the energy between them isn't there, the trust isn't there, you're done and we were able to collectively dig in and say, "Okay." let's figure this out wow and I wasn't playing well I wasn't shooting the ball well at all um and then my teammates picked you up and handed you yeah yeah wow back-to-back titles the LA Lakers the 2010 NBA champions One of the things that I had to learn is how to get the best out of my teammates, yeah, and most people think it's a simple thing, you know, passing the ball, but that's not how you make guys better, you really have to affect their behavior.

How do you do that? Yes, I would tell the boys that we have to be back to back. You know, I don't care if we're in Miami. I don't care if we're in a big city or Chicago, you can't go. outside we have to rest consecutive games consecutive games on Monday Tuesday you play on Monday and play again on Tuesday guys AR is going to listen to you, so sometimes you say "okay", we'll all go out, we'll go out together Really, I'll drink with you, but The next morning I will hit you at 5:00 in the morning.

Come on, they don't get to where we're going. I'll go out with you. Now come hang out with me. This is what we do, well, we go to the gym, we're working out, we take the bus, we go to practice, we play that night and they're dead and they're dead, they're like a lesson learned, listen if Let's do that, do that, but don't let that compromise what we're here to do, this is why we're here, this is why you're here in the first place, yeah right, and if we're going to win. For a championship, we have to have that championship

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, work ethic, that's it, so you have to show them that no teammate can do that and still have the energy to get up and do this, so either I have to find that same energy or I have to keep my But I got better early, like when I first retired, I got carried away a little bit and then the challenge was okay.

Can I get back in shape? It's very difficult because there is no end goal, there is no season, there is no, so how do you motivate yourself to do it? that how do you do it and then for me it was like well, I have to do it, I have to aim for something, so I said, I want to aim for size, I want to aim for volume, so that's something, I'm going to go for that, right ? but you also know, my kids because, as you know, your kids can't see how hard you work, you go to the office, I go into the studio, they don't really get a good look at effort, so how can we teach our kids what it is? ?

It means working hard and working well, you do it through training, so when I get up in the morning, my daughter goes with me at 4:00 a.m. m., 4:00 a.m. my 15 year old daughter goes with me, she goes with me before school and it turns into a daddy daughter thing which is cool, she just got her permit right so she drives in the morning it turns into a cool thing , but through that process she understands the value of hard work and things that take time and the same with my 12 year old son. right, she practices every day and it's through those behaviors uh um is where I find motivation.

All I can do here is just thank you guys, thank you guys for all the years of support, thank you guys for all the motivation, thank you for everything. The inspiration you guys will always be in my heart and I honestly appreciate it. There are no words that can describe how I feel about you and, thank you, thank you from the bottom of my heart. God, I love you and I love you. you and

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