Tag: Stephen A. Smith

"In this profession, I have whipped your a**. You can’t touch me, bro. There’s levels to this."

"If the idea of running for president was never serious, the whole exercise says less about politics and more about the media environment we now live in — one where even the possibility of a campaign can become just another tool for building a brand."

"I don’t think I’m running either because I’ve got to give up my money."

"I don’t want to hear s**t else you’ve got to say. You’re a 58-year-old having a popularity contest with 19, 20, 21-year-olds. You f***ing cornball."

"A sign of intelligence is knowing when not to weigh in."

"You want notoriety, you want publicity. You want to be noticed. Damn it, half the world forget you have a basketball team. That’s how bad y’all have been."

"He’s [Smith] doing stuff right now that is so fraught with peril."

"I think his life is so good that he shouldn’t be worried about s**t like that, unless it’s so personal that he has to hold on to it."

"I might have affected him in ways that other people haven’t, and that might have provoked him to do whatever."

"This isn’t about turning First Take into a hockey show. It’s about recognizing when the sports world hands you a moment bigger than your usual programming habits."