Shawn Kemp Quotes

I thought 'The Well' was going to launch my career, but nothing happened.

'Gimme a Break' ran for six years and gave me the kind of money and freedom that I'd dreamed would make me happy. It didn't.

With all the awards I've won, you'd think that I'd at least be able to make a living. It's a really terrible situation.

I like to joke that if I had a dollar for everybody who slapped me on the back and said, 'Hey Jeb, you're all set,' I'd be retired now.

I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my writing, going bad?

I have been working since I was 20, and I'm 38. I actually once averaged out what I had made over my professional life. I think I could have made that much as a waiter or an insurance salesman. You know, I spent so many years in my 20's making $10,000 a year.

I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure.

There's a disappointment there because I still feel there's an emptiness in my career that just wasn't filled.

I resented that my career wasn't going the way that it was supposed to. And I was angry that I wasn't getting the parts that I wanted.

You were always told that if you worked hard, you would get somewhere. But so many people feel they have worked hard and they have nothing to show for it.

It's always disappointing when your work is not received as you hope it would be.

I'm an actress but it's not fulfilling me in the way I thought it would.

While I revel in the memories of my own Grammy moment, I also know how it feels to walk away empty-handed.

You don't want a guy to be happy he's not starting.

I remember playing games and having tears roll down my face because it felt like it was never going to be good enough.

I'm so proud of what we accomplished during our era of Colts football, but I think every person, down to the last man, would tell you that he expected to win more than one ring in Indy. If there's any regret I have from my career, it's that.

As a dream comes true, it falls flat.

I know the feeling of being in the postseason and losing. It's not fun.

No matter how well or how bad you play, when you have a chance of winning and you come up a little bit too short, it obviously hits you a little bit. It stinks.

It's always a pity to lose or draw at the end of the game; it's always painful.

It was hard every time I found out that I was not in the starting XI.

When you come off the pitch, and you have had some chances but not scored, it is difficult.

I think I've underachieved quite heavily.

I'm confident about my stint with politics. But I won't leave acting, one, because it brings me my daily bread, and second, I realized that whatever little extra recognition I have today, it's thanks to my acting career.

It's always going to be hard when you see the other team lifting a trophy. When you have to walk up those stairs and collect the runners-up medal, it's hard.