Ryan Montgomery Quotes

You can’t take the heat, get ya ass out the kitchen
Matter fact, take ya ass back in there and wash the dishes.

I was doing 100 pushups by 8 years old. My dad was the type like he’d have friends over and be like, “My son can do that, Ryan drop and give me 100 pushups!” and would have me do it for his friends. It was that type of household.

I still wanted to get into the NBA. I was still on the team, I was a starting point guard and I was on and off the team because of my grades. That was the thing, discipline, discipline, discipline, and then I was going home to a very strict dad. He ran the house like the military.

When I was born, my momma pussy had the new car smell.

Something that I can say, “I set out to do this, however many years ago, and now I did it.” That’s a new thing of mine too, is just speaking things into existence.

People also knew me for putting people up to hip-hop, so people knew I was heavy into hip-hop. But as for cyphers and stuff in high school, I would never get on it because I was too shy. That’s pretty much what I was doing.

With it all independent I feel like we’re doing it one person at a time turning people into believers one person at a time. Just that good old-fashioned grind, get out there, touch the people.

Hip-Hop itself, the culture, the way that it’s going you could always see the effect that it has on basketball.

You can make your mind sharper, you can get sharper with time.

If you’re to the point where you’re trying to overcome that means you’re at the point where you’ve admitted that you have a problem, and that might be your strongest point in the addiction.

Hip-hop culture itself has completely consumed everything involved in entertainment. When you think about basketball like the way those guys dress; I don’t know if you notice but people care about how you dress these days.

I don’t like things to feel forced. I just let it flow, if it’s not flowing I just wait a bit in the studio or I go home.

I’ve never really been one to stop and smell the roses.

I think everyone has spiritual encounters and feelings but I don’t think everyone chooses to acknowledge them.

When you finally find the courage to admit you have a problem, that’s when you have some power over it. That’s the first step. Otherwise you’re just withering away, you’re like a burning piece of paper getting smaller and smaller.

It’s not about going to church every week because you know there’s a lot of people who go to church all of the time who aren’t going to heaven. It’s not even about that, it’s not about kissing God’s ass, it’s about being aware.

When you have something on your mind that you really have coming out of your brain… just talking to the beat, it’s pretty easy and it’s a natural feeling and at this point in my career. That’s what I’m going for, I just want things to be organic.

When you’re sober it’s easier to stay in line with your train of thought. There’s a lot more you’re thinking about that you want to discuss, and there are a lot more memories that you’re dealing with that you had pent up inside of you for so long because you had been drinking all of those years.