Shawn Kemp Quotes

I always play more than I talk, so the more I talk, the more I'll play.

You're playing or you're not playing. If you're playing, so just shut up and play.

I work in silence.

A lot of actors, you can't get them to shut up. Instead of listening and watching, they're always telling you something.

Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear.

The key to acting has much more to do with listening than with talking.

My business is not to show anybody anything; my job is just to do it.

Acting is doing, because everything you say or do is some kind of an action, some kind of a verb. You're always connected to the other person through some kind of action.

You see young people, or kids, and they're fascinated by the way people talk. And that's great. But eventually you get to the point where you think, 'You know what? I don't care how you talk, I'm just listening to what you're saying.'

When I step on the field, it's on. I know it's time to go to work.

Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.

Players have two things to do. Play and keep their mouths shut.

It is nice to be playing and involved.

Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can't hear, and not bothering.

What is important is that I do my job on the field.

When you're playing, it's important to focus 100 per cent on what you're doing.

I have to devote my time and thoughts to training and playing.

Whenever you're playing on the pitch, you have to step up to the plate and perform.

Practice makes perfect and if you practice battling and competing and working hard, then that will transfer over in a game. If you practice just kind of floating around out there in practice, you know that's going to transfer over, too. So I think the harder you work and the more you compete, then that's how you're going to play in a game.

The only way I could work properly was by using the absolute maximum of observation and concentration that I could possible muster.

In other words, If you don't take action, you won't get any results You are not your resume, you are your work

The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.

A lot of what acting is is paying attention.

Go around with your eyes like a camera. Don't lose it by talking. Go and listen. And work!

A good radio show will captivate you, and it's active listening. It's not in the background.