Shawn Kemp Quotes

I don't play ball because I want attention. I do it because it gives me the opportunity to bust somebody's head. And I just love to do it. I love what I do.

I don't go out looking to make spectacular plays. I just try to come in and be a physical presence inside.

We play a contact sport, and it's aggressive, and you have to be aggressive in everything you do.

You can't tap somebody in the helmet and say, 'Go be physical.' If you're not physical, you can't play physical, and that's a big part of what we believe in.

I like to bump people, to feel me getting into somebody's jersey. I'm just different. I like contact, like physical play, like pushing and holding. But I'm not dirty.

Of course the defenders are trying to be physical with me. They look at me, 7-3, skinny, they try to be physical.

I've always been a physical player.

There's shouting, there's blood, there's boogers, there's a whole thing. I mean, there's spitting, there's fighting, there's ripped jerseys. There's someone grabbing someone's throat. I mean, it's why you have football.

I love tackling, love it. It's better than sex.

I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing.

I'm not the most delicate - I'm not the most graceful person, and I like playing a sport where being not delicate and not graceful is actually a good thing.

I don't have to put on shoulder pads and run out there and let somebody hit on me a little bit.

The thing about darts is that you've got to shout. It's not like cricket where you can talk to Michael Atherton and ask him to analyse the bloody nuances. Darts does not have nuances. You've got to hurl yourself at it.

Let's just say I'm a physical guy.

Hockey is the original extreme sport.

I like playing inside. I just love the physicalness of being in the box with the bigger guys. That's just something that's part of my game.

It's the most violent sport there is.

Every now and then you have to be a little nasty, a little aggressive on the floor. That's part of being a basketball player.

I think you have to be physical no matter who you're playing against, so that's just something that I have to do.

I feel hockey is a tough game.

It's the NFL, so anytime you get to go out and get to play against another team, there's going to be some physicality.

When we were playing, it was rough and tough. Even superstars like me fouled out a lot.

Hard fouls are a part of playoff basketball, and I think that's how basketball should be. I don't take those fouls personally.

We play a very violent sport, and sometimes it leads to a lot of emotion, a lot of testosterone getting built up, and it comes out in various ways.

It's no secret that I enjoyed the physical side when I was a player. I was a bumps-and-bruises man.