Kenny Smith Professions : Basketball player Born : March 8, 1965 Browse All Authors Top 109 quotes by Kenny Smith When you play, you get an opportunity to hone your craft. Kenny Smith your you play opportunity 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. Kenny Smith hope food character water Mike Brown wasn't about race relations, nor Trayvon Martin or even Hurricane Katrina for that matter. It's about trust. Kenny Smith about trust race matter 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. Kenny Smith basketball strong hands way 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. Kenny Smith me high-school way school If you practice anything enough, you can be consistent. Kenny Smith anything you enough practice You don't get the accolades unless you win. It took me a while to understand. No one will remember how Kenny Smith played in Game 1 unless we win the series. The thrill is in winning. Kenny Smith game win me you In Texas, it's football. In Georgia, football. There's an appreciation from the average person about football more than anywhere else. And we have that for basketball in New York. And we'll always have that in New York. Kenny Smith new basketball appreciation football I always thought it's not that the greatest players in the world come from New York. It's just the guys who shouldn't have made it, they came from New York. That's what makes New York special. Kenny Smith new thought special world Similar Authors Bill Walton basketball-player Brandon Jennings basketball-player Byron Scott basketball-player Buck Williams basketball-player Brittney Griner basketball-player Brad Daugherty basketball-player All Authors