Kemba Walker Quotes

When you're struggling, especially mentally, it's only the team who can bring you out of that situation. It's not one or two players.

I think the first assumption as a coach can't be that we just have to run harder or do it tougher. You have to understand that everybody is a human being and you have to understand that everybody has things that they're dealing with.

It is much easier to get over your mistakes when you know you have the confidence of your manager and your team-mates.

People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.

If a player is trying to intimidate a skilled player on your team, what do we want? We want our skilled players playing, so we shouldn't be doing that.

If we knew more about psychology, we would be better equipped to deal with other people's psychological damage which they might project onto us.

I took a psychology class, and I think the study of the mind can help me further my acting ability. It's also taught me about getting into an environment with new people and acting like you've known them forever.

I think everybody had difficulties with that dynamic, turning the family into a band and being constantly together. So everybody, as individuals. had things to sort out.

Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings.

Good leaders need to be able to connect to all of those around them. This is especially true at Whole Foods, where we have a very team-oriented culture.

I really want to understand the mind so I can be more comfortable with the way people are. Being comfortable with people is incredibly important.

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.

I'm terrible at collaborating with people; nothing ever ends up coming out good.

I started writing a journal, and I was learning so much along the way. How to deal with your family, how to deal with your friends.

I have been to anger management twice. After the first session the lady was like, 'Baby, you don't seem that angry at all. You seem like a really nice guy.'

I can be a good listener. I can ask the right questions a lot of the time.

As a father, I've tried to encourage my children to have a broader and deeper emotional life than I've had. I want my sons to be able to express their feelings about things.

When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.

One of my strengths is connecting with the players.

Whenever I'm trying to understand people that I don't understand, or things in people or even in myself, I'll say, 'When did this negativity get here?' I try to think back to how I was raised to deal with things, and then consider how the person that I'm dealing with grew up.

In my solo series, I feel like I've often dealt with groups of people.

As you develop relationships in your team you have to learn how your teammates react to being yelled at or how to put your arm around them and show them how to do things. You have to build those relationships up and understand who that person is and how they respond and choose your way to lead them to hopefully help everyone out.

Fitting in with teammates has never been an issue for me. It's always something that came very natural.

When you are in a team sometimes you hear 'Blah, blah, blah' complaining all the time about small things.

It's hard for people to understand that when five or six guys are together working intensely, they can really get into some duels.