"Love me or hate me, it's one or the other. Always has been. Hate my game, my swagger. Hate my fade away, my hunger. Hate that I'm a veteran¹. A champion. Hate that. Hate it with all your heart. And hate that I'm loved, for the exact same reasons."

爱我或者恨我，两者必有其一。一直都这样。有人恨我的比赛，我的狂妄自大；恨我的后仰投篮，我对胜利的渴望；恨我是一名老将，恨我获得过总冠军。恨吧，用你的全部心思去恨吧。然而也有很多人深爱着我，理由却和恨我的人一样。

"It's funny. I think a lot of people, a lot of writers, try to take shortcuts² in their assignments and just regurgitate what somebody else may have written, you know, instead of truly saying what's going on," Kobe says. "I'm no different than anybody. Basketball to me, it's a game that I want to try to be the best at, try to work at as much as possible. But I understand it's a game. But I'm extremely outgoing. People say, 'He's quiet' and all that stuff³. That's crazy. They obviously⁴ don't know me. So, I mean, people that know me and people that seen me interact⁵, stuff like that, I'm completely opposite of what they read. And a lot of people actually tell me that. They'll say, 'Man, you're nothing like I thought you were."

“这太有意思了。我想很多人，很多作家，老是想尽办法在他们的写作任务中反复其他人可能已经写过的东西，而不是真实记录正在发生的一些事情。” 科比说，“我跟其他人没什么差别。篮球对于我来说，是一场我要尽可能努力做到最好的比赛。而我理解那是一场比赛。我是很外向的。人们说我很寡言，那简直胡说。他们显然就不了解我嘛。因此，那些了解我，跟我交流的人知道我跟那些报道中的完全不一样。事实上很多人也会这样跟我说，‘你跟我想象中的完全不同。”

"I just go. I just go. I just keep going until it feels right to me," Kobe says of his habits. "If something doesn't feel right, I'm gonna stay there until I get it right. I just continue to keep pushing and pushing and pushing. That's all I've known. That's how my parents raised me. If you're going to be focused on something, if you want to do something, you can't, you can't go about it in a half-assed way. You really gotta dedicate⁶ yourself to it, try to be the best at it. That's the only way."

“我只是不停地训练，不停地训练，直到我满意为止。”科比谈到他的习惯，“如果我感觉一些东西不对，我会呆在那不停地训练，直到我做到对为止。我只是不停地激励自己，不停地激励自己。这是我很了解自己的地方，也是父母教育我的东西。如果你要专注于某些事情，如果你想要做某些事情，你可不能半途而废，你得倾注你全部精力去完成那些事，尽力去完美地完成那些事。这就是事情解决的唯一途径。”

"I'm playing against great players, playing against the best in the world. The competition - that’s what I've always wanted."

“我正在跟伟大的球员进行对抗，跟世界上最好的球员进行对抗。这种对抗是我一直都渴望着的。

"My parents are my backbone⁷. Still are. They're the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40."

“父母仍然是我打篮球的支柱。只有他们自始自终在支持你，不管你得到0分，还是砍下40分。”

"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."

“为了取得比赛的胜利，要我做什么都可以，不管是坐在板凳席上给队友递毛巾、递水，还是上场执行致胜一投。”

"As far as carrying the torch for the years to come, I don't know. I just want to be the best basketball player I can be."

“我不知道需要多长时间才能取得辉煌，我只是想尽我所能去成为最出色的篮球运动员。”

"Everything negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise."

“压力、挑战，这一切消极的东西都是我能够取得成功的催化剂。”