J. R. Smith Quotes

In my teens, I was never part of the cool crowd.

No one wants to be the kid who allies with the weird kid.

I couldn't fit in the Irish community in New York. I was never one of the boys because they would talk about baseball or basketball, and I knew nothing about it.

It's always hard not to be a member of the team. There's lots of pressure to do that.

I used to feel very lonely on the team. The boys would all pair up.

I was the freak who moved into the nice neighborhood.

While some of my closest friends were jocks, it seemed that they spoke a different language with each other. Joining in their conversation was fraught with risk.

Hey, we've all been to high school We've seen the in-crowds. Most of us have been in the outer crowds, the people who weren't in. Although I was never in, I was selling records and was very happy.

I've never been comfortable around groups of guys when it gets into the putting-down. My past being a kind of geek - it kind of turns into an attack on the weakest of the group.

When I started, there weren't that many kids doing it in the city, but the in the wave after me there were a lot of them and they actually never spoke to each other.

At one point in time or another, everyone's an outcast, and you have to deal with those sort of issues in society. Especially for teenage kids, I don't think there's anyone that's really been through childhood and not been an outcast in one way or another.

I don't want to stay underground for just the cool people.

I've never been in a gang. None of my friends have been in a gang. I've never rolled around with big entourages.

I felt uncomfortable in cliques.

I never got to go to prom. I never went to regular school. I ate lunch by myself.

I've never been much given to little social cliques.

I think there's an element where people get very comfortable in their ghetto. Which is fair enough.

Dog parks are more cliquish than any other human gathering with the possible exception of seventh grade. Deal with it.

I didn't go to prom - I was homeschooled.

My school was pretty much all African Americans, but it was still a little tough to be in because I didn't have a lot of money. And when I came back to my neighborhood, it was tough to fit in there, too, because I was wearing Catholic school clothes, and I had two parents, which was rare.

Throughout evolution, ostracism was death indeed.

I was not the popular kid in school.

I'd never been to a prom, I had never had the whole high school experience. I think I was kind of an anomaly. I don't think they knew where to put me.

It was a strike against me that I didn't wear baggy jeans and jerseys and that I never hustled, never sold drugs.

I wasn't some weird loner in school, but I definitely wasn't invited to any of the cool parties.