Kenyon Martin Quotes

Basketball is what got me out of the projects. It got my momma the house she never had, the car she never had. Nobody is going to get the best of me. You might score more points than me, but you're going to know you were in a dogfight.

Kenyon Martin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 30, 1977

Topics

CarBestMeBasketballYouHouse

It's a very working-class thing, to get where you want and then not feel worthy.

Joe Gilgun

FeelYouWantWorthyWhereGet

It took me a couple of years after I got out of Berkeley before I dared to start writing. That academic mind-set - which was kind of shallow in my case anyway - had begun to fade.

Joan Didion

MeWritingStartKindFadeOut

It's very difficult to release an X-rated movie.

Jerry Bruckheimer

DifficultReleaseMovieVery

I don't need to hang out in a posse and try to act cool.

Jeremy London

CoolTryNeedOutActHang

Children are primed to take in something of more moral value than they're getting. I know I'm blowing my own horn here, but 'E.T.' had value to it in terms of the feeling about yourself that you walked away with.

Melissa Mathison

ChildrenYourselfValueYouMoral

Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one.

Tony Visconti

TodayPersonMoreProductionPlaying

Women's strength, women's industry, women's wisdom are humankind's greatest untapped resource. The challenge then for U.N. Women is to show our diverse constituencies how this resource can be effectively tapped in ways that benefit us all.

Michelle Bachelet

StrengthWomenWisdomChallengeUs

My dad was a professor, and he had a Fulbright to teach in Venice, so we lived there when I was really little, and then we moved to Detroit, like you do. But then my parents split up, and my mom had just fallen in love with Italy, so she decided to move back to Torino.

Miriam Shor

LoveParentsMomYouBackDetroit

I never know what I want, but always know what I don't want.

Louise Wilson

KnowWantNeverAlways

I'm a fly fisherman. I make flies. They're imitations of insects at different stages in their development.

Christopher Guest

FlyDevelopmentInsectsDifferent

We built something very special with Gaslight, and we don't want to mess with that sound too much. But I've always wanted to do a record where I can put strings or organs or pianos or whatever on it.

Brian Fallon

I CanToo MuchWantSpecialSound

I have never had problems sleeping the night before a race.

Bobby Rahal

NightProblemsSleepingRaceNever

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Kenyon Martin