My ass may be dumb, but I ain't no dumbass.
You can listen to the records and know: We're really street.
There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.
You learn how to be book smart in school, but you better not forget that you also need to be street smart.
For a woman to be able to dominate and also be feminine and soft, that's a talent. And its not all about appearance. A woman who has a brain, who is street-smart and book-smart, that woman is very, very sexy to me.
You got to be street smart I suppose when you bowl in India. You can't bowl at the same pace at the same place. Guys will work you out.
I am no police, I don't even have any educational degree, but I have a degree in life management.
I'm very down-to-earth. I think I'm still 'street'.
I wasn't just playing football on the street. I grew up on the street.
Mumbai is the kind of place where you learn how to be street smart... unless you're way too overprotected.
I'm from Stratford, East London. I can get down and dirty. I just roll my sleeves up and get on with it.
I used to grind. I be telling people, you don't grind, you don't sell. I was like 15, 16 getting dropped off in the city by myself, with my own beat CDs.
They say somebody's 'street smart.' I feel like, if I got intelligence, it's just a country smart.
I'm what they call an intelligent hoodlum.
I ain't got much education, but I got some sense.
There's really no age limit when you out there in those streets.
I've been around the block.
I suppose I am a bit of rough. I'm originally from Coolock: I'm rough around the edges.
Intelligent too, ooh you my sweetheart. I've always liked my women book and street smart. Long as they got a lil' class like half days and the confidence to overlook my past ways.
I'm no dummy. I have a good sense of the business end of this game.
I wasn't known as a neighborhood tough or anything like that. But yeah, I was, like, a scrappy kid. You know, I kind of kept to myself, you know?
I've seen it all, done it all, known it all.
New Yorkers are real gritty and tough.
I grew up in New York City, and I'm a city boy, born and bred.
I'm an inner city man, born and bred.
