Shawn Kemp Quotes

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

I can't control what people think of me, and I stopped really caring a long time ago.

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

I can't control what people think. They know who I am.

I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.

I absolutely do care what people think about me.

When you are in the public eye, it is really counterproductive to think about how you're viewed in the eyes of others. You just have to be who you are.

I can't control if people like me; I can't control if people like my game.

I don't believe anyone who says they don't care what people say about them. Of course they bloody well do.

I don't dabble and spend much mind or time dealing with, I don't know, people's perceptions of me. I truly don't.

I don't have a problem with my image; it's other people who do.

Many people have this image of me. For a long time, I cared about that.

There's absolutely no way you can feel the freedom to embarrass and humiliate yourself unless you have finally recognized that your identity is in someone other than yourself.

I don't mind what people say about me. I've never read a book about myself.

I am not aware of my public image or what people think of me. I don't evaluate myself that way.

People can think what they want about me.

It's not my business what other people think of me.

As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves.

I have no issues with my identity.

I'm not worried any more about changing people's view of me.

I really don't care that I'm ranked.

You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else's point of view.

I'm not concerned with what people think of me.

Being famous hasn't changed my perception of myself - I've just grown up.

Very early on, you figure out that you put your self-esteem in the hands of strangers. There's a different commodity. There's the Helena Bonham Carter that everyone thinks they know, who really has nothing to do with me. But you just have to let that go.