1304 | Kobe Bryant: “Championships or Nothing.”
The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks
Sean Croxton
4.8 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode, Kobe Bryant talks about the role of mediation in his mental and physical performance. Plus, he shares how he used practice to motivate and elevate the performance of his teammates.
Source: Kobe Bryant Interview | Mamba Mentality | USC Performance Science Institute
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| 0:00.0 | Yo, today's QLD is Championships or Nothing. |
| 0:05.0 | Here we go. |
| 0:31.0 | Welcome back to the QLD today show I'm your host Sean Crox and a Sean Crox and |
| 0:35.5 | calm. We've got the late the great Kobe Bryant on the show today. He's going to talk about a few topics. |
| 0:42.0 | He's going to talk about meditation, how important meditation was for his mental and his physical performance. |
| 0:48.0 | He's going to talk about having a winning culture with your teammates and within your organization. |
| 0:55.0 | And he's also going to talk about practice. |
| 0:57.0 | Whenever we hear that, we're talking about practice, we can't help but think about Alan Iverson and his rant about practice. |
| 1:04.0 | We're talking about practice, not a game, not the game, but practice. |
| 1:08.0 | And there's a story that I'll never forget told by Alan Iverson. |
| 1:14.0 | And he and Kobe were rookies the same year. They came into the league together and their rookie year. |
| 1:20.0 | They went out to dinner and after dinner, Kobe is dropping Alan Iverson off at the hotel and Kobe says, what's you about to do? |
| 1:29.0 | And Alan Iverson says, going to the club, what's you about to do? And Kobe says, I'm going to the gym. |
| 1:37.0 | And that's the difference between being great and being really good because Kobe Bryant has five championship rings and Alan Iverson has none. |
| 1:47.0 | And so we talk here about little by little, little becomes a lot Kobe Bryant practice three times a day. |
| 1:54.0 | Alan Iverson says, we talk about practice, not a game, we talk about practice. He didn't take his practice seriously. |
| 2:01.0 | So he didn't win any championships. |
| 2:03.0 | So with Kobe, it was championships or nothing. |
| 2:06.0 | And if you want championships, you got to put in the work. |
| 2:10.0 | Kobe Bryant coming right up. |
| 2:13.0 | Did you, you know, you seemed at peace both before and during the game pregame. |
| 2:18.0 | I, you know, we watched you during the anthem, you seem to go to a place. |
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