AFL / Aussie Rules Football Training: KOBE MAMBA MENTALITY MINDSET

"...I could never understand, why winning wasn't the most important thing to everyone. Why are you here then?..."

"...I have such a narrow focus, so I didn't have much time to socialize at all. When I wasn't training, I was writing and I was studying the art of writing, of film making. My days were booked. It wasn't that I went out of my way not to be social. It was just that I was busy preparing for what I'm doing now..."

(Golden State All-Star/Champion Draymond Greeen) - "...To get that call, he told me, he said, ‘Draymond, 99 percent of the world is okay with mediocrity, or worse. But, at best, mediocrity. You’re chasing something so much bigger that, how do you ever expect anyone to understand?’ ‘For me, that was all I needed to hear. Especially coming from a guy that I loved since I was a kid, that I have the utmost respect for, that I ended up building a relationship with..."

"...You need to know what makes you uncomfortable when you play and kids these days have too much reliance on coaches and workout guys but you have to tell them what you need - I feel uncomfortable with this - and if you don’t know then you’re underprepared..."

(Of his early teen years) - "...Trivial things weren’t going to get my attention, it had to have a purpose and anything outside of that lane (of basketball) I didn’t have time for..."
(After missing multiple game winners in Utah in his early NBA years) - "...I’m fucking fine, I shot 5 airballs on national TV that cost us the series but the reality of the situation is that you must get over yourself, you’re not that important and then you must determine why those airballs happened which was that I didn’t have the legs so I need to get stronger for an 82 game season so next year they’ll be there and those shots will fall..."

"...Outwork your potential..."
"...If you know every step of your dream then you haven’t dreamed big enough..."
"...I made a thousand shots a day and not just shots, they were specific shots, very specific..."
"...If I have to fight to get you in the gym then that’s a problem..."

"...Confidence comes from preparation so in a game I’m not asking myself to do anything I haven’t done before and when I prepare then I know what I’m capable of doing, I know what I’m comfortable doing and I know what I’m uncomfortable doing..."
"...I didn’t feel good if I wasn’t do everything I could to be the best version of myself..."
"...The greatest fear you face is yourself because we all have dreams and it’s scary to accept it and want it because you're afraid that if you put everything into it and fail then how will you live with yourself. Fearlessness also means putting yourself out there and going for it not for anyone else but yourself..."
"...Dance beautifully in the box you are comfortable dancing in and everyone has a different box and your job is to try and perfect it and to make it as beautiful of a canvas as you can make it and if you have done that than you have lived a successful life, you have lived with Mamba Mentality. Determine what are you comfortable being and what is it that you want to do with your life, and once you have that then you try and live it to the best of your ability..."

"...Greatness is being able to inspire 1 person to inspire another and so on creating something that lasts forever – how can your story motivate and impact others to create greatness..."
"...Rest at the end, not in the middle.."
"...There’s a lot answers that I don’t have, even questions that I don’t have but I’ll keep pushing and find them out along the way..."

"...The people that feel pressure are those who cut corners or who haven’t done the work but if you know you’ve done the work then you’ve no reason to feel pressure as it’s something you’ve done many times before, you’ve just got to do it 1 more time..."

"...To be a clutch performer you need to be calm and not get over hyped and let your own imagination get in your own way to allow the work you’ve done at practice to manifest itself during a game..."
"...The same stuff you do at training is the same stuff you do in a game, for bad or for worse..."
"...The 1^st step to Mamba Mentality is a curiosity to learn more knowing it’s not good enough to know that something that worked or didn't work and also why it did or didn't. If it did work then it's a matter of and how can you manifest that again and again so it not’s a matter of accidental play..."

(on leadership) "...The sun’s has a relationship with the moon and it needs to know when it needs to be out and when it needs to go away because if the sun is out all day long then you’ll sunburn everything around you..."

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