Kenny Smith Quotes

Coaching wouldn't be for me. No, certainly not.

Coaching is something I want to do.

If you have a coach helping you, developing your skills alongside you, that's when you're on your way to becoming not just a participant but achieving.

In coaching, you don't ever really have that joyful fun, but there's no question that it's enjoyable.

Maybe I've had a sheltered life and career, but I have so many role models to look up to. It's normal that I would strive to build my own career.

All my career I have done that, worked with talents, improving 19-year-olds, 20-year-olds, 17-year-olds, 18-year-olds.

You always want to get better, and I think that will remain true for the rest of my career.

For me to be at my best, I need to do something I'm decent at, which is coach.

If you've got aspirations to be a manager or coach, obviously coaching your country would be a great honour.

Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank.

For me, competition is good; that is what keeps me on my toes and keeps me going. I am always trying to better my own work, do better than my earlier films... do films that are challenging and exciting for me.

If, in a few months, I'm only number 8 or number 10 in the world, I'll have to look at what off-the-court work I can do. I will need to do something if I want to be number 1.

I get more ambitious every decade, and I am more ambitious today than ever before. I still love the game - and the thrill of the chase.

There is no real limit to how much better a person who really commits to getting better can get. Every manager has the potential to become an excellent manager for the rest of his or her career.

There's a lot of obsession about people's personal ambitions.

And, coaching has never been an option for me.

Goal setting is the most important aspect of all improvement and personal development plans. It is the key to all fulfillment and achievement.

I want to become more successful.

As a competitor, I want to push myself as much as I can to be at that level that I want to be.

I want to be the best player I can be.

Growing up, your whole goal and dream is to make the NHL. Once you get there, you kind of have to expand your goals on and off the ice. It took a little bit of time for me to do that, but again, with age and maturity you understand what you want more and how to achieve those things.

If you can provide value somewhere and have a coach who believes in you and creates opportunities for you, it's so important to continue to try to excel.

I know what it is like when a player has big ambitions.

When I started my career, I never looked at myself as one to be inspirational, but as I continued to grow, I've met so many different people who ask, 'How do you do it? You make it look easy.' But it's not easy. I have certain tricks and tips I use every day that have been working for me.

When you are 21 years old, and you work as a good professional, you must improve.