Kobe Bryant Quotes

I played in the playoffs with teams that were known for flopping and you do not get respect.

We don't teach player development in that way, to be able to try to trick the officials or make sounds or jerk your head back.

So, a flop is basically tricking the referee into thinking somebody fouled you or maybe elbowed you in the face.

There are pitfalls in World Cups, there are players who can win penalties and players who get the slightest touch and go down holding their face or whatever and get someone sent off. There are all these little things and you're hoping that you're not on the wrong end of it.

Diving is a really, really difficult one because a player is the only one who genuinely knows whether they have dived. You can look at it at 40 different angles and not know. And you can just fall over, too.

I went for a tackle with Radamel Falcao against Colombia, and he just dropped to the floor. I said to him 'Just get up!'

I don't dive. I'm not a player who dives.

If you watch me play, you'll see how often I get kicked. I don't go off the pitch and cut myself to act like I've been kicked.

I find it quite funny to see players rolling over trying to win free-kicks or get opponents booked. I've never done that, even at an early age. My friends would have just laughed at me.

A lot of players try to buy penalties, and sometimes defenders can't do a lot about it.

I admit to becoming frustrated by the frequency of diving in the Champions League.

The greatest secret of monarchic rule...is to keep men deceived and to cloak in the specious name of religion the fear by which they must be checked, so that they will fight for slavery as they would for salvation, and will think it not shameful, but a most honorable achievement, to give their life and blood that one man may have a ground for boasting.

the best lie is wrapped around a core of truth

Let's not be naive, we're not talking about a simple political battle; it is a destructive pretension against the plan of God. We are not talking about a mere bill, but rather a machination of the Father of Lies that seeks to confuse and deceive the children of God.

He who tries to protect himself from deception is often cheated, even when most on his guard.

The demon is a liar. He will lie to confuse us; but he will also mix lies with the truth to attack us. His attack is psychological, Damien. And powerful.

Only a Californian would have observed that it is becoming increasingly difficult to tell the real fake from the fake fake.

Satan will give you a little taste, then he'll move in with rapid speed.

It is clear that the world is purely parodic, that each thing seen is the parody of another, or is the same thing in a deceptive form.

When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts ... Who knows what use they’ll make of you? Maybe you’ll help them to persuade people to buy things they don’t need, or hate things they know nothing about, or hold beliefs that make them easy to handle, or doubt the truths that might save them.

You can hide as cleverly as you like, but in the final analysis mimicry is deception, pure and simple. It doesn't solve a thing.

Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather than from the abilities of those who are cunning. It requires no extraordinary talents to lie and deceive.

A small lie needs a bodyguard of bigger lies to protect it.

For me, Sun Tzu's statement that military force is based upon deception is an extraordinary statement.