Every championship we won came after an insane amount of hard work. The most difficult thing is that we have to take on levels of pressure that are beyond ordinary people’s imagination. We cannot promise to win a competition, but we can promise fight for everyone who loves table tennis. They are our biggest motivation.
——Liu Guoliang, Chinese former table tennis player and winner of Olympic Gold, World Cup, World Championships
科比在社交媒體釋出一段劉國樑的勵志講話，可謂是英雄惜英雄，原話是這樣的：
Every championship we won came after an insane amount of hard work. The most difficult thing is that we have to take on levels of pressure that are beyond ordinary people’s imagination. We cannot promise to win a competition, but we can promise fight for everyone who loves table tennis. They are our biggest motivation.
——Liu Guoliang, Chinese former table tennis player and winner of Olympic Gold, World Cup, World Championships
翻譯過來的意思是：每一個冠軍我們贏的都是來之不易，最艱難的事是我們要承受常人難以想象的痛苦和壓力。我們不能保證去贏每一個比賽，但是我們能保證去為了那些熱愛乒乓球的人們去奮鬥，你們是我最大的動力。
——劉國樑，中國前乒乓球運動員和奧運金牌得主，世界冠軍。
在這段文字的下面科比還配圖裡約奧運會中國乒乓球奪冠之後劉國樑親吻馬龍額頭的照片，可見科比也是蠻敬佩劉國樑的。
而劉國樑對於科比釋出的動態也很快做出了迴應：體育無國界，向傳奇黑曼巴致敬。
雖然劉國樑對於科比的迴應僅僅只有13個字，但這個互動代表了籃球界和乒乓球界的對話，眾所周知科比是籃球界的巨星，而劉國樑是乒乓球界的巨頭，更是優秀的運動員還是出色的國乒總教練，所獲獎項功勳數不勝數，還培養出一個又一個的世界冠軍。
科比的跟劉國樑的這個互動可以說是互相認可又互相珍惜。