Founders: #272 Kobe Bryant (The Life)

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What I learned from reading Showboat: The Life of Kobe Bryant by Roland Lazenby. ---- Founders Notes gives you the superpower to learn from history's greatest entrepreneurs on demand. You can search all my notes and highlights from every book I've ever read for the podcast. Get access to Founders Notes here. ---- [9:15] Notes from The Redeem Team documentary: 30 seconds into the first practice Kobe is diving for loose balls. That set the tone. Players go clubbing. Come back at 5:30am and see Kobe working out. "This motherfucker Kobe was already drenched in sweat. Yeah he’s different"— LeBron James. By the end of the week the whole team was on Kobe’s schedule. Understand the responsibility. I know I’m not going to fucking lose. I am not going to fucking lose. Not when I’m wearing this (team USA jersey) and not at this time in my career. You’re going to have to fucking shoot me. That’s how I want you to play. — Coach K At one point you will have a grandkid on your lap and they will ask you weren’t you in the Olympics ? What did you do? You wanna say: Well son, we lost to that fucking Greek team? —Coach K When you’re in the Olympic village you're around people who are the best in the

[00:00:00] In the midst of the chaos of his third season, Bryant was a very lost, lonely, frustrated 20-year-old. I just want to be the man, he told me, reaffirming his goal of making himself into the NBA's top player. I don't know how I'm going to get there. I just have to find a way. And he would, despite how unlikely such a goal seemed at that time, as he closed in on the end of his career, Bryant could look back at the numbers he racked up in 20 seasons and declare that he had earned a along. He was going to grind his way there, implacably, relentlessly grind away at the challenges of…

Founders: #272 Kobe Bryant (The Life)

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