Top 30 Matt Kemp Quotes

People make up things. If you ask the guys in this clubhouse I played with, I’ve never been a troublemaker. I don’t know where that came from.

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.

Somebody had asked me how it was to be in Atlanta, and I said that Atlanta had always been known as a Braves city, a baseball town.

I’m just going to live my life the way I want to.

I don’t think the guys I played with have ever had a problem with me. People can make up what they want to think.

More money gives me the chance to help more people, to give something back.

L.A. has always been home.

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.

Fans – they want to see results. I’ve been a fan before. I get it. But I see the bigger picture, too. I would never say an athlete sucks after they’ve been good, because you don’t know what they’re going through. They might be going through something that they can’t shake.

That’s what we all play for, is to play in the postseason.

I never got used to getting hurt and watching games on the bench. So, it’s a little frustrating for me to sit there and watch my guys go out there and play every day.

We definitely weren’t poor growing up, but we weren’t rich.

L.A. kinda raised me a little bit as a 21-year-old kid from Oklahoma.

I love looking and seeing what kind of shoes women wear. I think that tells me if a person knows what they’re doing. To me, shoes are… If I like your shoes, and you’re pretty, that’s a good quality. As well as being confident.

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

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.

A lot of people out there get hounded about things that are going on in their lives. You just find ways to handle it and go on about your business.

There’s nothing like Opening Day in Dodger Stadium. You can’t really describe it.

That’s just never been me – ‘Oh, this is hurt; that’s why I’m playing like this.’ That’s just not the type of person I am.

I love being around kids, and I love to see them happy.

When you think positive, good things happen.

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.

I don’t go out with the plan, ‘Let me find a celebrity to go date.’ That’s just not something you do. I’m just looking for a good person, someone who can be my friend, and someone I can have fun with. She doesn’t have to be a celebrity; she can be a regular chick. She’s got to be smart, though. I like smart women.

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

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.

I’ve always liked shoes. I peep everybody’s shoes out to see what they’re rocking.

I’ve been traded a couple times, but I’ve enjoyed the experience of new cities and cultures and all types of things.

I don’t think people understand what microfracture surgery is. It’s pretty serious. A lot of basketball players get it in their knees, and if they do bounce back, it takes a while.

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.

Frank McCourt is a great guy.