The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.
What distinguishes Kobe's thinking here is the separation of two distinct roles: he isn't claiming to make people great, only to awaken their capacity for it. There's humility in that boundary—an acknowledgment that greatness is something each person must construct themselves, not receive fully formed from an admirer or mentor. Watch how a parent or coach operates under this principle: rather than insisting their child pursue *their* chosen path, they light a match under the child's own ambitions, whatever they happen to be. The difference proves everything, because inspiration without prescription leaves a person's agency intact, while the latter breeds resentment or hollow achievement.
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
Viktor Frankl“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you ast...”
Rumi“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.”
Steve Jobs