“I don't do stuff to be a star. I do it because I feel it's important f...” — Matt Kemp Quote

“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.”

“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.”

“Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female.”

“Football is a personal interest which has been turned into a philanthropic initiative directed at encouraging social cohesion during the difficult process of African modernisation.”

“My roots are African. The birds I remember, the fruits I ate, the trees I climbed, they're African.”