J. R. Smith Quotes

I just can't stomach playing poorly. More than anything, I hate not getting the most out of my game.

If you don't score, what happens? You sulk on the bus the whole way back.

I hate to play a tournament in which I'm not contending. It's just not any fun for me.

We should have won the pennant that year. It was the best club I was ever on.

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

The first time I played against Seattle was the only time I felt destroyed. Vin Baker just manhandled me. The whole thing, their double teams, their movement, everything. I must've had eight turnovers. Which isn't a big deal for me because I turn the ball over a lot.

As cricketers we fail all the time. You score a hundred every now and again but you get out between nought and 20 far more often. If you get 50, you feel bad because you should have got a hundred. Even if you get a hundred, you feel you should have got 150. So you're always failing.

I would like to not lose the first set all the time and not get hit off the court.

I got really depressed when Sidney Moncrief lost to Larry Bird. That really depressed me.

I remember far more shots that cost me matches than the ones that won me matches. That is maybe the way you think if you are someone who has won a lot of tournaments and had a successful career.

You have to lose to win a silver medal, so that's always the tough thing to wrap your head around.

That competitive nature comes out when I feel like I'm playing bad and when things aren't going right.

You lose weeks of sleep over a bad game, and a bad game could be one missed kick. So the ones you make, you just try to build on the confidence with it, and the ones you miss, you try to get it out of your head as quickly as possible and try to make the next one.

I think I didn't win a match for one, one-and-a-half years.

When you're losing, and you're losing again, and you're losing 3... 4... 5 games in a row, it can be frustrating.

When you lose a game, there's obviously disappointment, and you want a game straight away.

When you don't make the plays that you know you're capable of making, it's frustrating.

It's frustrating not to play well.

When you come off the pitch, and you have had some chances but not scored, it is difficult.

It happens so quick. You lose a game; you lose another game; it's a World Cup; media scrutiny; public expectation, and then you almost go into sort of survival mode. We've all been there.

One of my favorite things about the D-League was going on the road and losing and not having to talk to anyone after the game.

There is a sense of frustration because we are losing games that we know we are capable of winning.

I base a lot off the team's success, and when the team's not playing well, you're getting your head beat in pretty much every night, it's tough to try and enjoy what you're doing.

You lose in the Finals, they're all disappointing. Doesn't matter if I'm playing in Miami, Cleveland or on Mars. You lose the Finals, it's disappointing.

Being down match point, it's just not fun.