As a of fan, I’d like to post these quotes in memorizing of the greatest basketball player in my heart. Legend lives forever, Black Mamba!

Kobe Bryant Quotes

1. “Dedication makes dreams come true.”

2. “Once you know what failure feels like, determination chases success.”

3. “The most important thing is you must put everybody on notice that you’re here and you are for real.”

4. “I see the beauty in getting up in the morning and being in pain because I know all the hard work that it took to get to this point. So, I’m not, I’m not sad about [retiring]. I’m very appreciative of what I’ve had.”

5. “After all, greatness is not for everybody.”

6. “I can’t relate to lazy people. We don’t speak the same language. I don’t understand you. I don’t want to understand you.”

7. “May you always remember to enjoy the road, especially when it’s a hard one.”

8. “We psych ourselves up too much. Like if you try to talk yourself into, ‘Oh, this is a big moment, this is a big shot,’ you’re putting a lot of pressure on yourself. You shot that shot hundreds and thousands of times. Just shoot another one.”

9. “There’s nothing truly to be afraid of, when you think about it, because I’ve failed before, and I woke up the next morning, and I’m OK.”

10. “People say bad things about you in the paper on Monday, and then on Wednesday, you’re the greatest thing since sliced bread. I’ve seen that cycle, so why would I be nervous about it happening?”

11. “There’s a big misconception where people thinking winning or success comes from everybody putting their arms around each other and singing kumbaya and patting them on the back when they mess up, and that’s just not reality. If you are going to be a leader, you are not going to please everybody. You have to hold people accountable. Even if you have that moment of being uncomfortable.”

12. “If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.”

13. “The beauty of coaching is growing the players from the ground up. That journey continues.”

14. “Use your success, wealth, and influence to put them in the best position to realize their own dreams and find their true purpose.”

15. “I want to learn how to become the best basketball player in the world. And if I’m going to learn that, I gotta learn from the best. Kids go to school to be doctors or lawyers, so forth and so on and that’s where they study. My place to study is from the best.”

16. “A lot of leaders fail because they don’t have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord.”

17. “I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I’m like, ‘My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don’t have it. I just want to chill.’ We all have self-doubt. You don’t deny it, but you also don’t capitulate to it. You embrace it.”

18. “Trust me, setting things up right from the beginning will avoid a ton of tears and heartache.”

19. “These young guys are playing checkers. I’m out there playing chess.”

20. “I want to see if I can. I don’t know if I can. I want to find out. I want to see. I’m going to do what I always do: I’m going to break it down to its smallest form, smallest detail, and go after it. Day by day, one day at a time.”

21. “I create my own path. It was straight and narrow. I looked at it this way: you were either in my way or out of it.”

22. “When I have the chance to guard Michael Jordan, I want to guard him. I want him. It’s the ultimate challenge.”

23. “A lot of people say they want to be great, but they’re not willing to make the sacrifices necessary to achieve greatness.”

24. “It’s hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I’m talking to them.”

25. “From the beginning, I wanted to be the best. I had a constant craving, a yearning, to improve and be the best.”

26. “My parents are my backbone. Still are. They’re the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.”

27. “I never needed any external forces to motivate me.”

28. “Pain doesn’t tell you when you ought to stop. Pain is the little voice in your head that tries to hold you back because it knows if you continue you will change.”

29. “Losing is losing. There aren’t different degrees of losing. You either win a championship or you’re s**t. It’s very black and white to me.”

30. “You guys know how I am. I don’t forget anything.”

31. “I saw you come in and I wanted you to know that it doesn’t matter how hard you work, that I’m willing to work harder than you.”

32. “I’m extremely willful to win, and I respond to challenges. It’s not a challenge to me to win the scoring title, because I know I can.”

33. “Leadership is lonely. I’m not going to be afraid of confrontation to get us to where we need to go.”

34. “The important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.”

35. “Have a good time. Life is too short to get bogged down and be discouraged. You have to keep moving. You have to keep going. Put one foot in front of the other, smile and just keep on rolling.”

36. “I had to organize things. So I created the ‘Black Mamba.’ So Kobe has to deal with these issues, all the personal challenges. The Black Mamba steps on the court and does what he does. I’m destroying everybody that steps on the court.”

37. “Everything negative—pressure, challenges—is all an opportunity for me to rise.”

38. “I realized that intimidation didn’t really exist if you’re in the right frame of mind.”

39. “There’s no need to get too crazy or bent out of shape. There are still challenges every day. But I’m still having fun. I was born to play this game. I still love it.”

40. “This is the moment I accept the most challenging times will always be behind me and in front of me.”

41. “Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.”

42. “When we are saying this cannot be accomplished, this cannot be done, then we are short-changing ourselves. My brain—it cannot process failure. It will not process failure. Because if I have to sit there and face myself and tell myself ‘You are a failure,’ I think that is almost worse than dying.”

43. “The moment you give up, is the moment you let someone else win.”

44. “The message was that if you want to win championships, you have to let people focus on what they do best while you focus on what you do best. For me, that was rebounding, running the floor, and blocking shots.”

45. “If I wanted to play, I’d still be playing for the Lakers.”

46. “The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great at whatever they want to do.”

47. “The last time I was intimidated was when I was six years old in karate class. I was an orange belt and the instructor ordered me to fight a black belt who was a couple years older and a lot bigger. I was scared s**tless. I mean, I was terrified and he kicked my a**. But then I realized he didn’t kick my a** as bad as I thought he was going to and that there was nothing really to be afraid of.”

48. “When you make a choice and say, ‘Come hell or high water, I am going to be this,’ then you should not be surprised when you are that. It should not be something that is intoxicating or out of character because you have seen this moment for so long that when that moment comes, of course it is here because it has been here the whole time, because it has been [in your mind] the whole time.”

49. “Be sad. Be mad. Be frustrated. Scream. Cry. Sulk. When you wake up you will think it was just a nightmare only to realize it’s all too real. You will be angry and wish for the day back, the game back, that play back. But reality gives nothing back and nor should you.”

50. “I’ve shot too much from the time I was eight years old. But ‘too much’ is a matter of perspective. Some people thought Mozart had too many notes in his compositions. Let me put it this way: I entertain people who say I shoot too much. I find it very interesting. Going back to Mozart, he responded to critics by saying there were neither too many notes or too few. There were as many as necessary.”

51. “I love that kids are building confidence on and off the court and unlocking their potential through sport.”

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

53. “I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.”

54. “I don’t f**k with bees, man. Other than that, I’m not afraid of nothing.”

55. “If you do not believe in yourself no one will do it for you.”

56. “I’m reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.”

57. “I got one more than Shaq. So you can take that to the bank.”

58. “We all can be masters at our craft, but you have to make a choice. What I mean by that is, there are inherent sacrifices that come along with that. Family time, hanging out with friends, being a great friend, being a great son, nephew, whatever the case may be. There are sacrifices that come along with making that decision.”

59. “I never looked at [basketball] as work. I didn’t realize it was work until my first year in the NBA. When I came around, I was surrounded by other professionals and I thought basketball was going to be everything to them, and it wasn’t. And I was like, ‘This is different.’ I thought everybody was so obsessive about the game like me. It was like, ‘No? Oh, that’s hard work.’ I get it now.”

60. “We can always kind of be average and do what’s normal. I’m not in this to do what’s normal.”

61. “There’s been a lot of talk of me being a one-man show but that’s simply not the case. We win games when I score 40 points and we’ve won when I score 10.”

62. “Haters are a good problem to have. Nobody hates the good ones. They hate the great ones.”

63. “Boos don’t block dunks.”

64. “The beauty in being blessed with talent is rising above doubters to create a beautiful moment.”

65. “Winning takes precedence overall. There’s no gray area. No almosts.”

66. “I don’t want chumps, I don’t want pushovers, and if you’re a chump and a pushover, I will run over you.”

67. “Take it all in. Sit back and watch and listen and hear all the hate that’s being thrown at us and remember every person that’s kicking you when you’re down, because next year it ain’t gonna be this way. Appreciate it now. Let it sit in now, because revenge is sweet and it’s quick.”

68. “Friends can come and go, but banners hang forever.”

69. “There’s certain players that I’ve made cry. If I can make you cry by being sarcastic, then I really don’t want to play with you in the playoffs.”

70. “You are responsible for how people remember you—or don’t. So don’t take it lightly.”

Reference: https://parade.com/1234641/jessicasager/kobe-bryant-quotes/

Everyone in the classroom benefits when there are opportunities throughout the day to reflect and prepare for learning.

As a culturally responsive educator, I firmly believe that these are things we should do. The action may be tiny and insignificant, but it is important to do so.

Let’s talk teacher pay. It’s no secret that teachers are some of the most underappreciated and underpaid professions around the world. So we think it’s time for a change, and if you’re going to dream of change… why not dream for a LOT of change? We’re talking about backing up the Brinks truck and making it rain cash all over the place. Yup, we’re talking about paying teachers a million dollars a year. Think it’s too much? Well here are 10 points that prove we are worth every penny.

1. Teaching is like 20 jobs rolled into one, so teacher salary should be like 20 salaries rolled into one.

Let’s face it, teachers aren’t just teachers. We’re counselors, surrogate parents, mentors, therapists, emotional support providers and so much more. So since we’re doing all these extra jobs why aren’t we getting paid for them? On most days we have to wear so many hats that the only thing we DON’T get to do is actually teach our students. So I say we just add up all those extra jobs, see what they would all get paid individually and add it to our total. (Hint: You’re going to need a calculator to do that much addition.)

2. We pretty much have the most important job in the world.

It’s not just teachers who say this. A lot of people agree that teachers play a vital role in the development and progression of society. We are literally teaching the future movers and shakers of our world and the better job we do, the better our future will become. Yeah, I’m pretty sure it doesn’t get more important than that, so let’s start recognizing our importance in a way that matters… with a buttload more money.

3. It takes a lot of coffee and candy to power a teacher for an entire year.

Waking up isn’t easy to do in general. Waking up early in the morning, dragging your body into school, and getting bombarded with a classroom full of endless energy machines is bordering on cruel and unusual punishment. As such, teachers require copious amounts of coffee and candy so that we can at least attempt to match the sugar rush our students seem to be on, on a daily basis. We need teacher pay that supports our caffeine and sugar needs.

4. If we’re going to make more decisions than a brain surgeon, we should at least get paid like a brain surgeon.

There was a study done not so long ago that concluded that teachers make more minute-by-minute decisions than a brain surgeon. That is both amazingly cool and terrifying all at the same time. To think a brain surgeon with years of medical experience and training could walk into a classroom and honestly say, “Nope, there’s no way I can handle this,” says a lot about teaching. What it should also say about teaching is we’re worth at least as much as brain surgeons and should be compensated as such. Yup, teacher pay should be greater than brain surgeon pay.

5. We need the extra cash to prepare for everything the school day throws at us.

If a zombie apocalypse broke out tomorrow (it is 2020 after all, there’s still time), you know teachers would be the most likely to survive. We know how to prepare for every possible curveball that could ever be thrown at us, and after a year like 2020, I think it’s time to make sure teachers have every resource available when the world goes all wonky again. A million-dollar teacher salary ought to just about cover it, you think?

6. Some of us have very serious classroom supply addictions.

Teachers aren’t perfect creatures. Some of us may wander into Target and get lost for hours at a time filling our carts with every manner of supply we can find. But can you blame us? You never know when you’ll need Sharpies in 50 different colors. There will totally be a time when that’ll come in handy, we promise. And just think of how visually rich our classrooms would be with that kind of supply budget? Increasing teacher pay could single-handedly save the economy!

7. If you think we’re just a bunch of babysitters, then you should totally pay us like babysitters.

Teachers get called a lot of things, including “babysitters.” So you know what, let’s just lean into that metaphor, shall we?

Let’s assume that as babysitters we would get paid $25 per hour per child. A little high perhaps, but we are filling their heads with important knowledge so that should move us ahead of the average teenager you hire on a Friday night.

Now a lot of teachers have 25 students in their classrooms for 7-8 hours per day, and most school years are 180 days long. Ready to see the math?

$25 per hour per kid x 25 students 8 hours per day x 180 days = $900,000

Hmm… that million dollars doesn’t seem so crazy now, does it?

8. Our Pinterest minds can only create so much on a teacher’s salary.

Teachers are a creative bunch. We spend hours on Pinterest scouring the page for crafts and decorations and organizational ideas that would be the perfect fit for our classrooms. Sadly our current teacher pay can’t come close to matching what we envision in our minds. I figure a million dollars should just about cover even our most ambitious projects.

9. Just consider it back pay for all the times we were underappreciated.

Yes there’s Teacher Appreciation Week, and yes another coffee mug with “#1 Teacher” on it always puts a smile on our face, but c’mon now. You know teachers aren’t getting the love we deserve. Remember earlier this year when we all went into quarantine and parents suddenly realized how hard teachers work and instantly started telling us how valuable we were and how we deserved all the pay raises in the world? Yeah let’s go back to that, I liked that.

10. Because we all know we’d spend most of it on our students.

At the end of the day, you know just how true this sentiment is. Teachers love their students and we want to give them everything they need to be successful (and maybe a few extra things here and there because we like seeing them smile). If teachers really got paid a million dollars a year, we’d be pouring it right back into our students in as many ways as possible. Our students would never need another backpack, pencil, laptop, book or pair of shoes ever again.

And if that isn’t reason enough to pay us a million dollars, I don’t know what is.

Reference: https://www.boredteachers.com/post/10-reasons-why-teachers-deserve-to-be-paid-1-million-a-year?fbclid=IwAR3uD-RcXL87M1X0M_XTQr0_s3usw87EGbiQ0qc9fRye6zOR_UYNFSfNf0g