Quotes from Kenny Smith

If you look at the NBA, it's the richest and wealthiest group of African-American men in the world.

The Rockets have a philosophy of what they think their coach should be.

We all want to let fans behind the scenes. We just don't want them following us around.

When the Sacramento Kings, when I was there, we win 29-30 games - that was a successful season. And it would be packed from start to finish. You couldn't get a seat.

I've played more park games than NBA games, and I had a 10-year NBA career.

There are people who will take shortcuts, and if you decide to take a shortcut, it usually backfires, so I'm proud to say I'm not a shortcut taker.

I shoot too many shots in the summer to worry about my shooting.

I think it's right not to 'give' but to create opportunities and invest a percentage into those communities that you come from.

I'm not a boxer, I'm a basketball player.

Phil Jackson is a mastermind, and he knows how to keep his team from being complacent.

The Warriors are competition, and competition makes the best of us.

By the time I turned 16, I'd played more than 300 games outside high school.

That's all my brother and I do, talk basketball, and I'd like to think I bring some of that casual quality with me on the air.

When academics claim a topic is obsolete, they mean merely they are tired of flogging it with their cliches.

If you like capitalism, you will positively love depressions, because they are one and the same, like manic-depressives and their cycles, like spouse-abusers and their storms of violence.

Intellect is merely a narrow and highly specific kind of thing that we DO, but our immediacy relates us to what we naturally and essentially ARE, the actualities of our full-dimensional existence.

If you put 100 people on an island with no food, no water, no hope of a ship coming, then some will overcome it and be resourceful, some will live in it, others will panic, and others will show horrific character, which is wrong. But not to understand that all alternatives are possible is wrong as well.

I think, for me, one of the things I've been blessed with is the ability to speak with clarity.

Coaching is definitely on the aspiration list.

The 18 years on TNT has prepared me for a lot of opportunities, and coaching is one of them.

In our league, 20 points in the first half isn't anything.

If you practice anything enough, you can be consistent.

My high school coach used to tell me there's no correct way to shoot, that the only correct way was to get the ball into the basket.

I started playing basketball when I was 6 or 7. I wasn't strong enough to shoot the correct way, so I just used two hands. As I got older, I just kept shooting that way.