"I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success."
"Difficulty is a nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who rocks her foster children roughly, but rocks them in strength and athletic proportion. The mind, grappling with great aims and wrestling with mighty impediments, grows by a certain necessity to the stature of greatness."
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Source: Kobe's first TV ad for Nike debuts by The Associated Press, www.espn.com. February 12, 2006.
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