Ahmad Ali

“Those times when you get up early and you work hard; those times when you stay up late 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. That’s the dream. It’s not the destination, it’s the journey.”
― Kobe Bryant

“Good coaches tell you where the fish are, great coaches teach you how to find them.”
― Kobe Bryant, The Mamba Mentality: How I Play

“I wasn’t willing to sacrifice my game, but I also wasn’t willing to sacrifice my family time. So I decided to sacrifice sleep, and that was that.”
― Kobe Bryant, The Mamba Mentality: How I Play

“If you really want to be great at something you have to truly care about it. If you want to be great in a particular area, you have to obsess over it.”
― Kobe Bryant, The Mamba Mentality: How I Play