Long Quote by Kenny Smith Download Open image “I've been an NBA player, and a black man, for a long time, and I know how to take a loss.” — Kenny Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Long Long time Loss Man NBA Nba player Time
The NBA is a predominately black league. And me kind of being the anomaly in that sense, I've always tried to commit myself to… — Duncan Robinson Copy Share Image
I kind of know the standard of what I need to do to be successful in the NBA game. — Kelly Oubre, Jr Copy Share Image
I don't want to sit there and compare to things I've gone through to what the Black player, the African-American player, goes through. — Ron Rivera Copy Share Image
I don't really need to bury the NBA. I just want the truth to be known about what I did and how I did… — Tim Donaghy Copy Share Image
How can you be negative living the basketball NBA life? It's impossible. — Danilo Gallinari Copy Share Image
I've just been trying to focus on the basketball and not the business of the game. — Jordan Clarkson Copy Share Image
I understand the NBA and the role I play on my team. I know that I have to play a leadership role and do… — Carmelo Anthony Copy Share Image
I'm the only black man you ever met who couldn't dribble a basketball. — Shannon Briggs Copy Share Image
As I've gotten older in the NBA, I'm one of the more experienced guys and kind of know what to do in every situation… — David Lee Copy Share Image
As an NBA player you want to help your team win at any cost, that's my main goal. — Pascal Siakam Copy Share Image
The approach of intellect or noesis will forever be an effete and limited sort of thing by contrast with the vigor and color of… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
One can hardly appreciate how academia has perverted its highest tasks and "ideals" without pondering long and hard the implications of Jacques Barzun's House… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
When academics claim a topic is obsolete, they mean merely they are tired of flogging it with their cliches. — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
If you look at the NBA, it's the richest and wealthiest group of African-American men in the world. — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
In late modernity we grow more and more accustomed to politicians and public figures who are indebted to their appetites for their "values," to… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
How infinitely happier and more grateful is the whole personality or spirit when it finds something nourishing in art or writing or thinking, than the mere mind or intellect is: the kinship you celebrate in these personalities is your own dismembered Orpheus stumbling across another fine organ to rejoin to itself. I put it this way: aristic psyche loves itself… — Kenny Smith Copy Share
There are a lot more famous fathers out there than me with daughters who wouldn't mind singing careers... but the talent and the work… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Games like 'Call of Duty' and 'NBA Baller Beats' have so much to them. I was more of the 'Pac-Man' generation where we were excited to play table tennis on the TV. — Kenny Smith Copy Share
The Rockets have a philosophy of what they think their coach should be. — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
I've played more park games than NBA games, and I had a 10-year NBA career. — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
People compose the schedules they do out of the priorities they have; and someone who says otherwise is deceiving himself about what he really values. The same thing applies to money that applies to time. I make a practice of watching what people do, never what they say. Whatever is important, to anyone sane, he will make a place for… — Kenny Smith Copy Share
It appears to me that one great cause of our difference in opinion on subjects which we often discuss is that you have always… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
Only within yourself exists the other reality for which you long. I can give you nothing that has not already its being within yourself.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I would borrow money all day long, if the cost of borrowing is less than the expected return. — Brad Schneider Copy Share Image
Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Contradictory precepts that have guided me for as long as I can remember: 1: I will live forever. 2: I will die tomorrow. — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy to imagine a future in which growing numbers of cities have their frail and long-neglected infrastructures knocked out by disasters and then are left to rot, their core services never repaired or rehabilitated. — Naomi Klein Copy Share
The real world out there isn't nearly as nice as some people prefer it to be, so don't swallow everything your high-born teachers tell… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a child, I had a lot of older gay men taking care of me. There's a trust there. I feel like little girls and old gay men together - there's a safety. They make a shield from all of the bad things they've experienced in the world. They make a home together. There are no songs about that. I… — Margaret Cho Copy Share
[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could, and still things get worse in Tibet." If you look at it from one point of view, as he himself says, his monastic position of forbearance and nonviolence hasn't reaped any benefits. And yet, he's thinking… — Pico Iyer Copy Share
I genuinely did not expect more than half our nation to choose to walk away from our long-term allies into the arms of our… — Brian Reade Copy Share Image
Long before the 2016 presidential campaign, confidential sources had alerted me to longstanding misuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court system and the erosion… — Sharyl Attkisson Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their fears and openly confront dictators such as in East Germany and Eastern Europe about 22 years ago... The yearning for freedom cannot be contained by walls for long. It was this yearning that brought down the… — Angela Merkel Copy Share
