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Earlier today, I saw a snippet of an interview with the great Kobe Bryant, five-time NBA champion for the Los Angeles Lakers, who had just scored sixty points in\u00a0his last professional game. \u00a0(Unfortunately, it was against the Utah Jazz.)<\/p>\n
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He was asked how he would like to be remembered.<\/p>\n
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I was impressed by his reply.<\/p>\n
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He said that he would like to be remembered as \u201ca talented overachiever.\u201d \u00a0He had been blessed with talent, he said, but he had worked as if he had none.<\/p>\n
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A really great way of looking at a whole host of things, and one of the reasons that he\u2019s earned the right to\u00a0be remembered among the greatest basketball players of all time.<\/p>\n
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Posted from Mesa, Arizona<\/p>\n
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