Matt Kemp Quotes

#1. If I'm in the car after a bad game, I may think about ways I need to improve. But the second I reach home, the game's over. Work doesn't come inside with me. Same thing in reverse - I don't bring my personal life into the ballpark. Learning to keep it all separate has made life easier.

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#2. One of the things I've done is tell myself I can't let bad things that happen to me on the field, off the field, whatever, affect me.

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#3. Airlines go in the long run at the competition to reason. For the passenger the competition is good, because each competitor tries to undercut the other one.

Niki Lauda

#4. I've pretty much grown up to hide my emotions for the most part.

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#5. When you think positive, good things happen.

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#6. I get bored real easy. I'm so used to L.A. and the pace that when I go home now I start thinking, 'Something's not right, something's not feelin' right.' I just gotta do what I gotta do in Oklahoma and get back to the fast-paced city.

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#7. The superiority of the dreamer is that dreaming is much more practical than living, and that the dreamer extracts from life a much vaster and varied pleasure than the action man. In better and more direct words, the dreamer is the real action man.

Fernando Pessoa

#8. I don't see how you can go too far, in the right direction

Margaret Drabble

#9. Sometimes I forget how much people look at you as their hero. I forget that.

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#10. We definitely weren't poor growing up, but we weren't rich.

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#11. If you do a full-on workout and then eat McDonald's or Wendy's, you're defeating the purpose. If you put good things into your body while working out, you'll see results.

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#12. I'm always telling people baseball needs to be more prominent in the African American community. What a better way to do so, going on these TV shows and appearing on the cover of this or that. Now kids can see how baseball can change your life. Frank Thomas did that for me.

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#13. I didn't know if I could make it to the big leagues without going through Triple-A.

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#14. Beast Mode doesn't make excuses. It doesn't complain. Whatever you're doing, go out there and get it done. Keep pushing. If I have a bad game, I think about what I have to do to return to form. Figure it out, go to sleep, and wake up a new man.

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#15. If I could do it over, I'd want to come up to the big leagues like Mike Trout. He's exciting and I like watching him.

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#16. Why don't you and I have a nice penetrating man-to-man conversation?

Sanami Matoh

#17. Everything in English sounded funny.

Richard House

#18. I don't think some athletes understand how big it is to be an athlete, what they can do with just a simple gesture of shaking a kid's hand. It can make a fan's day. It can make a fan's life.

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#19. I don't do stuff to be a star. I do it because I feel it's important for kids, African American kids, to see an African American face that plays baseball.

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#20. When I spend money on myself, it's almost always on shoes and clothes. I'm addicted to shoes. I always have been, since I was a kid. When I was young, I could never get the shoes I really wanted.

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#21. Life is fragile and absurd.

Leo Tolstoy

#22. In Hollywood, for me, it's all about the movie stars and the singers. Baseball players don't draw too much attention; we're low key. I'm good with faces and sometimes bad with names, but I'll walk up to somebody if I know who they are ... show them some love.

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#23. I never want to sit out. I want to play baseball games.

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#24. 10 ways to love: listen, speak, give, pray, answer, share, enjoy, trust, forgive, promise.

Will Smith

#25. Racism is kinda old. For real,

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#26. I love L.A., but you can get into a lot of trouble out here.

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#27. Modern invention has been a great leveler. A machine may operate far more quickly than a political or economic measure to abolish privilege and wipe out the distinctions of class or finance.

Ivor Brown

#28. I'm pretty sure that China is way bigger than the Dominican.

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#29. To be well in your mind you have first to be free.

Chris Cleave

#30. I've been a Lakers fan since growing up in Oklahoma. My hometown's finally got the Thunder, which is really exciting, but I've still got to stick with the Lakers.

Matt Kemp