Stephen A. Smith Quotes

I care about how I look, but I don’t care about the fashion industry.

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

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.

I am a native of Hollis, Queens, N.Y.

I climbed up this business.

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

I came up in this industry at a time where you had to be a journalist. You had to break stories. You had to break news to elevate your career, to get to a certain point and a certain level in this business, before you even had the license to give your opinion, especially if you were a black man.

When you think about advertising, it’s understanding that whether it’s newspaper, radio, or television, you have to know how to advertise, how to market, because ultimately, everything comes down to ratings and revenue or ratings and subscribers and revenue, whether it’s newspapers or radio or television.

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

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.

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.

It’s my job as a reporter to not be about the business of making friends or enemies but just be in the tireless pursuit of truth.

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

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.

The truth hurts sometimes, particularly when it involves someone at a low point in their life.

When we got home from school, every TV in the house was on ‘General Hospital,’ so if I wanted to watch TV instead of do homework, I had to watch ‘General Hospital.’

Watch me on CNN/SI. Check out clips from ‘Quite Frankly.’ I’ve always been Stephen A. Smith. I’ve been this way since the day I was born.

I was the youngest of six, with four older sisters.

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 pride myself on being someone who stomps, who does not tippy-toe.

Money is here to be made in America. – for those with the ability to earn it legitimately. The exception appears to be when you’re young, gifted, and black. There are always questions when the three intertwine.

There are many dimensions to Stephen A.

A season is not made in a week or two any more than a stellar game epitomizes greatness.

You can’t score if you can’t run.

I think a lot about me is humble.

I worked as an intern. I worked at a high school. I worked at a college newspaper while I was taking 18 credits while on the basketball team.

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.

I don’t have time to read books. I’ve read my share of books throughout my life, and I will continue to do so.

When you understand that everything – and I do mean everything – in this nation that we live in, if not this world, is connected to the almighty dollar, it doesn’t mean you worship it.

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

You want to be the best at something.

I go to work every day with two missions. Two! No. 1: how can I make my bosses more money? And No. 2: how can I get some of it?

I work in a public forum, and all I can do is say what I honestly feel.

Once upon a time, it was hard to decipher what was more difficult to stomach: the foolish, detrimental behavior of a professional athlete or the apologists disguised as their inner circle, eager to excuse the inexcusable. And then there came Allen Iverson, who didn’t make it difficult at all.

New Yorkers always want to win. But it’s just as important to us that you show us that you’re trying like hell to do it for us.

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 can’t stand lying. I can’t stand liars.

The role that people think I play is not a role. When I go home, and I’m with my sisters, I’m the same way. When I’m with my boys, I’m the same way.

Everyone that knows me knows I’m about winning.

You have haters from all walks of life. I could care less who wants me to fail. They inspire me.

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

I care about how I carry and present myself.

My first newspaper job was a high school reporter for the ‘New York Daily News.’

Let me be clear: Despite his flaws, I respect Andy Reid as a coach and as a person.

There is nothing worse than being mediocre at a whole bunch of different things.