Shawn Kemp Quotes

I don't think I ever feel sexy. I don't think that's for me to decide, if I'm sexy or not.

It's pretty easy to get sucked into a vortex of others and what their thoughts are and letting other people's judgments of you make you actually believe them about yourself. And sometimes you just need people to remind you that none of it means anything.

What people think of me and my playing is up to them, not me.

What you think means more than anything else in your life. More than what you earn, more than where you live, more than your social position, and more than what anyone else may think about you.

I don't really care what other people see me as. I seriously don't. I've always worried about what my opinion of myself is. And I've always thought that it carries most weight. So I don't care what other people's opinion of me is or how they view whatever I've said or done.

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

I always thought I should base how good I am on how good I feel I am.

Do I really need to prove anything to anybody? I don't feel that I have to prove anything. The only thing that I have to prove is to myself, that I have value.

I've never lived my life in the opinion of others. I believe I'm a good person. I believe I'm a good mom. But that's for my kids to decide, not for the world.

I try not to invest time in what other people think of me.

When I was in my early 20s, I looked towards exterior things to make me feel sexy - guys, clothes, shoes, etc. Now it's all about how I feel internally.

You can feel like, 'I look really bad', but to other people you can be really gorgeous.

My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.

I'm not that interested in what people make of it, or how people consider me. That's nothing to do with me.

Well, you know, when people say stuff about you, it's always really flattering. But does it mean anything to me? It's not really real to me; there's no reality to it.

The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

I don't really know and I don't care what I'm worth.

Success isn't measured by the amount of people that watch you unless you allow it to be.

It's always flattering when you get compliments, but it's more of a measure of who you are at the time than anything else.

No one has told me how much I'm worth, and I'm not trying to find out.

I know what my teammates think about me, I know what my coaches think about me. I don't concern myself with what anyone thinks outside of that.

I just constantly tell myself that I should be the only one to define my worth and what I'm capable of and how I perceive myself. And that I should never source that worth from other people, especially strangers on social media. They don't know who I am, the length of my journey, who I am as a person.

I wish I didn't have to validate myself by reading reviews.

When people you don't know say nice things about you, if you allow yourself, even subconsciously, to attach a shred of meaning to it, when the opposite happens, when people you don't know say bad things about you, you can't attach that same meaning.

Does what you think of you determine your worth?