Matt Kemp Quotes

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.

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.

When you think positive, good things happen.

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

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 pretty much grown up to hide my emotions for the most part.

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.

Everybody used to say that baseball players can't dress and athletes can't dress. You know, a lot of athletes now are trying to prove everybody wrong, though there are some athletes that try too hard and try to do over-the-top things. But me, I try to be simple and just make whatever I'm wearing look good.

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.

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

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

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

Racism is kinda old. For real.

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.