Kenny Smith Quotes

You always learn a lot more when you lose.

I've knocked out a lot of people so I'm not going to cry about being stopped, it's part of the game and I can accept that.

Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.

A good balance of winning and losing is important. If you just win all the time, you won't get anything out of it; having some tough losses can be really important.

We always learn more from the losing than the winning.

Part of playing the game of life is you're going to have some losses.

Every man's got to figure to get beat sometime.

Sport and life is about losing. It's about understanding how to lose.

When I was 4 years old, my brother and sister died of hunger, so I achieved my success through confidence, self-motivation and my hard work.

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

The young must be prepared to experience innumerable disappointments and yet not fail.

When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Things happen to everybody in the course of a lifetime. Relationships end, people die, tragedy befalls everyone. So everyone has this wealth of experience, and the older you are the more you have to draw on.

I played in football games where you walk off the field and the scoreboard didn't end up the way you wanted. But you knew that you really did give it all. And the other team was too strong.

You get too old to lose. When you were a young guy, you bounced back from losses.

You win a few, you lose a few.

After you lose the Presidency, you don’t have much else to lose. My failures have helped make me a better Senator and Secretary of State…. I’m a more effective public person after some of the failures I’ve had through[out] my career.

I'm a leading lady character actor; I don't fit in one slot simply. I've always been used to a certain amount of struggle, and that prepared me wonderfully for a mature age.

It's the fight game, and everyone loses. You win some, you lose some. You just try to get back up on the horse.

I have not lost an awful lot in my life, but the defeats have taught me more than the victories. Whenever I lose, I focus on the ability of my opponent and on the mistakes I made.

As you go in there, you keep winning; after you've had a loss or two, people start to humanize you.

It's tough when you get beat. You have to be able to come back mentally. Sometimes the offense is going to win, but you have to be able to be level-headed and not get too upset when they do catch the ball.

When you lose is when you learn the most.

I'd rather have the underdog position than the favorite because I've been the underdog for a long time. I don't mind fighting that way.