Shawn Kemp Quotes

Shawn Kemp

Profession : Athlete

Birth : November 26, 1969

I'm not going to sit here and tell anybody I haven't had difficulties in my life, haven't made any bad decisions. But to sit back and consider myself a bad person or not doing something positive, it's so untrue.

Shawn Kemp

I'm not trying to come back and change the perception of what people think about me. They can think what they want to, man.

Shawn Kemp

I'm all for doing positive. I've worked in the community. My wife, she's spending her life basically giving back to the community. That's something that we take pretty seriously, man.

Shawn Kemp

My lifestyle is probably not quite what people would expect it to be.

Shawn Kemp

I'm no dummy. I have a good sense of the business end of this game.

Shawn Kemp

I never went to the Sonics and asked for more money. I didn't ask for another dollar.

Shawn Kemp

I don't just want to be the best player in the NBA, I want to be the highest paid.

Shawn Kemp

When things don't go right, people are always trying to protect themselves.

Shawn Kemp

I always say, 'When things are quiet, you know something is going on.'

Shawn Kemp

When you watch the old NBA, one thing is for sure, you will see more fights, a little more talking, bigger guys, bigger bodies.

Shawn Kemp

My love for the game is very, very high.

Shawn Kemp

I'm not coming back to play basketball for any financial reasons.

Shawn Kemp

My hopes and dreams are to be in the Hall of Fame one day.

Shawn Kemp

When stuff happens to you, it just makes you tougher, man.

Shawn Kemp

You never let what someone says bring you down. If you do that, you'd be a chump in this world.

Shawn Kemp

If I read an article and believed everything a guy said about me, I'd believe I was the best person in the world or the worst person in the world, so I can't go off what some guy says about me. I only go off what happens to me.

Shawn Kemp

You get a chance to play, you get a little more comfortable out there on the court, and you just try to make the most out of the time you get.

Shawn Kemp

You've got to go through times in your life when you're not going to make the greatest decisions. But the thing is, I always say, you grade a person on what they've become after they've made some mistakes. Because it's so easy to make mistakes when you're young.

Shawn Kemp

I won so many years in Seattle and then to go to Cleveland... I had a pretty nice year the first year I got there and then the last two years, we just weren't able to make it to the playoffs.

Shawn Kemp

I remember when I was a rookie, there was an article in 'USA Today' that said, 'Larry Bird, he's lost a step.' That night I went out to guard him, he scored, like, 47 on me.

Shawn Kemp