Una de las cualidades que ha hecho que Kobe tenga tanto éxito, y que hará que lo siga teniendo en el futuro, es su atención al detalle. Él siempre solía decirnos: si quieres ser un jugador mejor, tienes que prepararte, prepararte y seguir preparándote.

Kobe sabía que para ser el mejor necesitas un enfoque distinto al de los demás.

Kobe knew that to be the best you need a different approach from everyone else.

You will find that success and attention to details, the smallest details, usually go hand in hand, in basketball and elsewhere in your life.

I believe in the basics: attention to, and perfection of, tiny details that might be commonly overlooked. They may seem trivial, perhaps even laughable to those who don’t understand, but they aren’t. They are fundamental to your progress in basketball, business, and life. They are the difference between champions and near champions.

For example, at the first squad meeting each season, held two weeks before our first actual practice, I personally demonstrated how I wanted players to put on their socks each and every time: Carefully roll the socks down over the toes, ball of the foot, arch and around the heel, then pull the sock up snug so there will be no wrinkles of any kind.

If you want to be a better player, you have to prepare, prepare, and prepare some more.

Le he robado movimientos geniales a los mejores jugadores. Sólo trato de que quienes vinieron antes que yo se sientan orgullosos, porque yo he aprendido mucho de ellos. Todo es en nombre del juego. Es algo mucho más grande que yo.” — Kobe Bryant

I, Kobe Bryant, have decided to skip college and take my talent to the NBA.

I knew that I was not going to be stopped.
So at the age of eighteen, this was my life.

Right?

So, you can't possibly become better than me because you're not spending the time on it that I do.

Even if you wanna spend the time on it, you can't because you have other things.

You have other responsibilities that are taking you away from it.

So, I already won.

That, in my opinion, was his primary leadership asset: his ability to teach people how to think and play at a different and much higher, and, at times, perfect level. He accomplished this in three ways: (1) he had a tremendous knowledge of all aspects of the game and a visionary approach to offense; (2) he brought in a great staff and coaches who knew how to coach, how to complement his own teaching of what we needed to know to rise to his standard of performance; and (3) he taught us to hate mistakes.

if you do the following three things, you will be successful in major college basketball. If you don’t do them, it will be most difficult.” He didn’t say it would be impossible — typical of John Wooden — but he said it would be difficult. I was scrambling for my pen when he said, “Those three things are fairly simple: Number one, make certain, Dale, you always have better players than anybody you play. Now, with that locked up, make sure you always get the better players to put the team above themselves. And number three — this is very important, Dale Brown,” he said, “don’t try to be some coaching genius, or give the guys too much information, or too much stuff; always practice simplicity with constant repetition.

"One of Job's great strengths was knowing how to focus. " Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do, " he said. " That's true for companies, and it's true for products.

Early on, Abraham revealed a keystone attribute essential to success in any field — the motivation and willpower to develop every talent he possessed to the fullest.

habits and qualities that the professional possesses that the amateur doesn't: 1. The professional shows up every day 2. The professional stays on the job all day 3. The professional is committed over the long haul 4. For the professional, the stakes are high and real Further: 5. The professional is patient 6. The professional seeks order 7. The professional demystifies 8. The professional acts in the face of fear 9. The professional accepts no excuses 10. The professional plays it as it lays 11. The professional is prepared 12. The professional does not show off 13. The professional dedicates himself to mastering technique 14. The professional does not hesitate to ask for help 15. The professional does not take failure or success personally 16. The professional does not identify with his or her instrument 17. The professional endures adversity 18. The professional self-validates 19. The professional reinvents herself 20. The professional is recognized by other professionals

As researchers Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool underscore in their book Peak, mastery requires deliberate practice, and lots of it. But if you love it, you do it. Picasso experimented with other forms of art but kept painting as his focus. Michael Jordan did a stint at baseball, but basketball was where he really thrived. Play hardest in your area of strength and you’ll achieve depth, meaning, and satisfaction in your life.