What Kobe Bryant Knew About Winning, in Basketball and Life

Lessons from the Lakers legend

Michelle Woo
Forge
Published in
5 min readJan 27, 2020

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“There’s nothing really special about Kobe,” longtime Lakers head trainer Gary Vitti once said on the Legends of Sports podcast.

He was talking about the fact that Kobe Bryant was big, but not that big. He was quick, but not that quick. And he was powerful, but not the most powerful…

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Michelle Woo
Forge
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Author of Horizontal Parenting: How to Entertain Your Kid While Lying Down (Chronicle Books)