Quotes from Stephen A. Smith

You can't score if you can't run.

While winning may not always personify the Big Apple, attitude certainly does. Players get called to the carpet. So do coaches, managers, executives, owners, and anyone associated with them. No one is safe.

Long before my days at ESPN, the 'Philadelphia Inquirer,' or the 'New York Daily News' before that, I was a student at Thomas A. Edison Vocational and Technical High.

LeBron James and Dwyane Wade don't just beat you, they snatch your heart.

It bothers me when nobody is criticizing me, because then I am not doing something.

I am a boxing fan.

LaDainian Tomlinson, Hines Ward, Marion Barber, and a host of other black stars help the NFL shine brightly week after week.

If the show sucks, I ain't happy. If the show is damn good, I'm very happy.

I've watched presidential debates since I was a teen, and I love it.

I can't stand people who look into the camera and look into the eyes of millions of people and wax political correctness.

No one on the planet Earth is going to be able to look at me on television and say that I'm a liar. It will not happen.

I prefer turkey to other potential sandwich meats. Turkey is delicious, and the turkey and cheese sandwich is my personal favorite. It doesn't upset my stomach, and I like to have it once or twice week.

Yes, I'm a personality. I accept that. O.K.? I understand it. But I'm a personality with credentials.

My father is from the West Indies, the St. Thomas Virgin Islands.

I've covered the league over two decades, I've known Bryan Colangelo for a long, long time. He's not someone who goes on and off the record criticizing his contemporaries or his predecessors.

I have opinions that are based on the facts that are presented to me.

Heart means something, especially in Gotham City, where the only thing worse than a scrub is someone devoid of that thumping sound inside the chest.

If I'm hated, so what? If I'm loved, so what?

I pride myself on respecting my colleagues.

There are many dimensions to Stephen A.

I'm associated with Walt Disney, but dammit, everybody knows that I'm a bottom feeder.

Don't fake what you feel. I've never been about that. I never will be about that.

When I was at the 'Philadelphia Inquirer,' I was promoted nine times in my first 13 years. I ultimately went from general assignment to beats on St. Joe's and Temple, to backup writer, to NBA writer, to NBA columnist, to, ultimately, in 2003, to general sports columns.

I've never taken an acting lesson in my life, and it's not my chosen profession, so I'm flattered when people say I can do it and give me props for doing it.