Latest Ryan Montgomery Quotes from Interviews

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

  Ryan Montgomery

  Basketball, Hip Hop, Culture

  Source: uproxx.com

• 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.

  Ryan Montgomery

  Basketball, Thinking, People

  Source: uproxx.com

• The competitive nature definitely sticks out in my mind. Everybody out there is trying to win. Each individual is trying to put up more points. Each individual is trying to put each other on while playing in a team atmosphere.

  Ryan Montgomery

  Team, Winning, Atmosphere

  Source: uproxx.com

• I'd clash with my dad over other things, you know, like difference of opinion and me getting testosterone, you know what I'm saying? Me feeling like I'm a little tough, being a teenager. But my big brother would come in drunk and really, really try my dad and I didn't want to do that.

  Ryan Montgomery

  Brother, Dad, Teenager

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

• My big brother used to come home drunk and he'd clash with my dad and I just didn't want that.

  Ryan Montgomery

  Brother, Dad, Home

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

• 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.

  Ryan Montgomery

  Dad, Son, Years

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

• My dad struggled with cocaine addiction, and we actually went to rehab with him too. I remember having extensive talks with him about how I was wired a certain way, how I wouldn't be able to drink and do drugs the same way my friends got to.

  Ryan Montgomery

  Dad, Addiction, Drug

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

• 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.

  Ryan Montgomery

  School, People, Hip Hop

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

• 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.

  Ryan Montgomery

  Dad, Military, Team

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

• I feel bad for these preachers man, they're on their jets doing all of that stuff because there's a lot of people living hell on earth.

  Ryan Montgomery

  Men, People, Earth

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

• I was probably just graduating high school, maybe still in high school. When I was still in high school, maybe the last two years, I was rapping but I wasn't telling anybody. When I signed my deal people didn't know it was the same Ryan Montgomery from Oak Park High School, because I used to play basketball and I used to fight. Like I'd bring boxing gloves to school. So when they found out, it was, "You mean Ryan who be boxing?" or, "Ryan who be hopping up at the park?" So I was known as that guy.

  Ryan Montgomery

  Basketball, Rap, School

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

• I got caught cheating a bunch of times, well now I'm not drinking but you think just because I say, "Oh I'm not cheating on you" that that's good enough? No! It's about action and I think it's the same way with God. It's about action, it's about the way you live your life and how you carry yourself and that's what God sees. I think people should take a page out of that book when they make their decisions and do things... and I think that the world would be a better place.

  Ryan Montgomery

  Cheating, Drinking, Book

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

• If you can think outside the box or you can think bigger than that, then that will keep you centered in this earth, in this planet. I think with me I always believed in God but after certain things happened to me that's when I knew without a doubt.

  Ryan Montgomery

  Thinking, Doubt, Earth

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

• 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.

  Ryan Montgomery

  Kissing, People, Heaven

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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

  Ryan Montgomery

  Spiritual, Thinking, Feelings

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

• Some people never know that they happen, some people never know that they had a shot to know whatever it is their dream is because they were in the wrong mental spot. But if you believe in God, or you believe in some higher power, or something... because if you think about it, our brains are only meant to fathom what we see.

  Ryan Montgomery

  Dream, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

• Just take it a day at a time. If you think, "I'm never drinking again in my life," you're setting yourself up for failure. But if you just think, "I'm not drinking today," then get through that day and just stay consistent. Consistency is basically the root to everything; it's the root to all success. Consistency is key.

  Ryan Montgomery

  Drinking, Thinking, Keys

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

• I think it's helped me evolve all around, as an artist and as a person. I think we need something, need something to believe in. We need something that makes us pay attention to these humbling experiences.

  Ryan Montgomery

  Believe, Artist, Thinking

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

• 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.

  Ryan Montgomery

  Home, Waiting, Flow

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

• 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.

  Ryan Montgomery

  Mean, Addiction, Trying

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

• 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.

  Ryan Montgomery

  Talking, Careers, Feelings

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

• "Tabernacle" was probably the easiest song I'd ever wrote because all I really had to do was rhyme the words since the whole story, front to back, was already in my head. All I needed to do was verbalize it, and if it didn't have to rhyme I could've just freestyled it because I already knew what I wanted to say.

  Ryan Montgomery

  Song, Stories, Rhyme

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

• I don't think I ever would have had a problem being vulnerable or introspective but the problem with drinking is it's very hard to zero in on one part. You're not dealing with anything in real time, you're constantly moving and constantly going. You're drinking to get away from things, things your dealing with. My wife might be calling me trying to argue and I don't wanna deal with it so I just go drink and by the time we talk again I'm so drunk I just don't care. I'll just deal with it however.

  Ryan Montgomery

  Zero, Real, Drinking

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

• 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.

  Ryan Montgomery

  Memories, Drinking, Thinking

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

• 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.

  Ryan Montgomery

  Years, Existence, Mines

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com