Over the years, many legendary sports personalities have inspired the masses to achieve their best. From the likes of Serena Williams to Simone Biles, these players have overcome all odds to carve a niche for themselves. Amongst them was the legendary American basketball player, Kobe Bryant.

Bryant is regarded as one of the greatest basketball players of all time. During his illustrious career, he won five NBA Championships and was an 18-time All-Star. Earlier this week, Serena Williams’ husband, Alexis Ohanian, shared some inspiring words from the late basketball legend.

Serena Williams’ husband recounts Kobe Bryant’s inspirational words

Alexis Ohanian took to Twitter to share a video of some motivational words from Bryant. In the video, the basketball legend can be heard saying, “I’m going to beat you. I’m going to let you know I beat you. I’m going to want you to reconsider your professional life choice.” Further, reacting to this, Alexis said, “A little while back I told my team this (when it comes to competition) and OF COURSE @kobebryant did it first & better. (Thanks for the clip @razroo_chief) RIP Kobe.” 

Earlier, the Reddit co-founder struggled to find this video and appealed to the Twitter users, saying, “There’s an amazing quote from Kobe Bryant about wanting to be so good that he would make his opponents reconsider playing professional basketball. Google is failing me. Does anyone have a link to the video?”

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During her injury break from tennis, Serena carved a niche for herself in the business world. Earlier this year, she received mammoth funding for her firm Serena Ventures. Serena revealed that she’ll use this fund to invest in women and diversity.

Serena all set for her singles comeback

It will be exactly a year since Serena stepped on the court to play a singles match. Later today, the American legend will face Harmony Tan in the opening round of the Wimbledon Championships 2022.

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Last year, she retired in the first round at Wimbledon owing to a hamstring injury. However, the 23-time Grand Slam champion will hope to dig deep at the tournament this time around.