Kenny Smith Quotes

So you get two good hours on the field about every day, you get about an hour and a half in the meeting room and that's pretty much all you need to thoroughly coach your team.

One thing I know in baseball is you should never be comfortable where you are. It doesn't matter who you are. It's a business. If I got traded tomorrow, no hard feelings; it's a business.

Some people asked me if it was going to be a downer to come back and play on a college team after playing on a world championship team, and I don't think they understand what it is like to play here.

Players suffer coaching changes all the time; it's life in the NFL.

As coaches, we learn to accept criticism for our decisions. If a writer says you shouldn't have gone for it on fourth-and-one, we understand that's part of the job. We expect it.

When you start the game, coaches will tell you to do stuff in a particular way, and kids do that. But the moment you start first-class cricket, the coach needs to tell you, 'Try this, try that,' instead of, 'Do this, do that.' If you feel comfortable, you can take it; otherwise, leave it.

The NBA is changing so much. It's not like when I came up, with that old-school mentality that practice really mattered.

The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.

Coaches who have been players in the league, they get so attuned to playing how they were successful and who their coaches were.

Speaking to the coach has been my number-one criterion at every club I've played for to find out what he expects from me, how he will make me improve, and that he'll play me.

Mike Brown wanted to hire me to work with LeBron in player development.

I think one thing I had going for me that a lot of rookies didn't is that we played 15, 16 games every year in college.

I started this job in 1995, and I felt the same pressure in my first day, with my first team, Reggiana, in the Second Division, as I feel now. Nothing has changed, but what changes are the number of games, especially for top teams. For this reason, the work has pressure. But only this.

I've trained under a lot of coaches and always picked up elements that develop a player.

In games, you notice there's more sprints than in Bundesliga. It takes a while to get used to.

When you are one of the best coaches in the world, it is normal to attract bad reviews if you lose a couple of games.

The decisions you make are based on what you think is better for the team and the player.

When I first came to England to play I saw coaches having a go at players when they made mistakes and they would literally be talking them through the game.

In football, any team can still improve, in every sense.

In so many ways, when you're in college, you're even closer with the locker room than you are with a professional team.

In the U.S. system, too often the best player on an under-17 team will be treated like a 'star' - not having to work for the ball, being the focus of the offense at all times, etc. - at a time when they should be having to fight tooth and nail for their spot.

You just constantly are evaluating and learning and drawing players and coverages and talking through it. It's part of making you the player, how you want to approach the game.

Really, all coaches are accustomed to coaching... normal players.

I think there are much bigger differences between players in this league than between coaches. There is a big gap between LeBron James and the small forward for whoever. Far bigger than between two coaches.

I want to be drafted to a team that knows exactly what they're getting.