Shannon Sharpe Quotes

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

Ever since I was a kid, I've known I could talk to people.

I'm much less shy in conversation than I am on my own.

I find that talking about myself is often the most boring thing in the world. Sixty per cent of interviews I find mechanical.

I really don't talk much.

Coach K always wanted me to talk more, even when I was in college. That's something I'm going to do as I get older.

Talking, being a better talker, wouldn't have been that hard. It was just, I was just naturally gifted at other things.

Many a man owes his advancement very largely to his ability to converse well. The ability to interest people in your conversation, to hold them, is a great power.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.

We do not learn first what to talk about and then what to say about it.

I'm quite shy. Really. I'm trying to expand myself as a person more, get involved with people.

I don't know much about him; never heard him say more than nope or yup.

If I were to name my favorite pastime, I'd have to say talking about myself. I love it and I think most other people do too. We need, people like us, more listeners and less talkers.

My life isn't necessarily more important than anyone else's: I'm just better in talking about it.

I don't know whether it's a fear of standing up, but I really love sitting at the table and blabbing. I learn so much that way, and I think I get free that way, free from inhibition and fears.

Being introverted, it doesn't mean necessarily being shy or being afraid of public speaking; it just means that it's hard for me to interact with people for too long.

Opening up is something I have to learn how to do if I'm going to be in this business.

I've never been a shy person. I've always been able to talk pretty well.

I'm a constant idiot in conversation - I always seem to sound either smug or stupid. Writing plays was a way of winning the conversation by controlling the conversation.

I can interact with anybody, but I'm shy.

I've made it my business to condition and train folks to understand that you'll never know what's going to come out of my mouth.

I think, like, in real life, I'm actually quiet, and I mumble a lot. But that's not very lucrative.

I don't talk a lot.

For those of us who aren't great with people, we figure that silence is always the safest bet. If you're an introvert, you spend so much of your time wishing that other people would just shut the hell up that you figure you're doing everyone a favor.

Confidence in conversation has a greater share than wit.