Shawn Kemp Quotes

Teams passed on me, that happens.

People are quick to be like, 'You're irrelevant. You're a flop; you're washed up.'

I hate to be treated as if I'm invisible. I get incensed when people talk across me or refuse to catch my eye in a restaurant or shop.

No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.

I was a two-star athlete. I got looked over.

First of all, I'm misunderstood in general. I don't mind because I'm very quiet, and I stay to myself. People are going to say what they want to say.

I think the whole boxing world was sleeping on me. They were sleeping on me hard.

The people we keep standing in the anteroom of our favor either start fermenting or turn sour.

My honors are misunderstanding, pesecution and neglect, enhanced because unsought.

Whatever your work and whatever its worth, No matter how strong or clever, Some one will sneer if you pause to hear, And scoff at your best endeavor. For the target art has a broad expanse, And wherever you chance to hit it, Though close be your aim to the bull's-eye fame, There are those who will never admit it.

I don't get no respect

A lot of times naysayers are just people that have not taken the time yet.

Inter did not treat me well. They did not recognise my value despite me winning the Italian Super Cup and the Club World Cup.

I opened up to you and you judge me

You ain't nothing but hound dog, cryin' all the time. You ain't never caught a rabbit and you ain't no friend of mine.

Everyone thinks I'm showing off when I talk, ridiculous when I'm silent, insolent when I answer, cunning when I have a good idea, lazy when I'm tired, selfish when I eat one bite more than I should.

You had no faith to lose and you know it.

Actually, I was a little rejected at first. I kind of got slapped down.

Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.

Whatever is proposed, it is much easier to find reasons for rejecting than embracing.

I operate under the assumption that people don't notice the good in me. That's just how things always seem to play out. I get blamed, while con-artist kids like Venus, and Camille, and Gemma get believed. But the rescue lady noticed. In the background, just observing, she noticed.

My whole life has been completely about being underestimated. I remember when Blink signed to a major label, and we had a debut party for the signing. No one came to party, only the guy that signed us. And I remember sitting there, like, "S**t, no one likes this."

You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you.

The fact that my continuous and public rejection of Christianity does not worry me in the least should suggest to you just how inadequate I think your reasons for being a Christian are.

When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they've given up on you.