"The only thing you really need to be in the game is a switchblade. That's the only requirement."
"You need some skills to survive on these mean streets."
"Keith Nail's affable nature and street smarts made him a worthy competitor."
"If you apply everything you learn from the streets into business, you can do really well."
"I never seen nobody peek like me, [expletive] messing with the wrong one, that's for sure."
"A man is supposed to protect his family, bro, you ladies got to get with a man who understands how the streets work."
"Wisdom is the hard-fought street smarts, the things that you know because you've experienced them."
"If you know the tricks you can't be played like a fool."
"If you're green when you come in and by green, I mean no street smarts, no common sense, that type of thing."
"I'm not going to [__] with you. They not going to [__] with you. You good, like, what? I feel like you can talk a [__] out of robbing you. [__] come up to you, I did it before."
"If I comply to the streets, I can apply to any business."
"You have to learn how to differentiate business in the street."
"I don't have book smarts, okay? I have street smarts."
"I'm educated, man. I've been in the streets, and I'm educated."
"I lived for it because deep down inside iabo might be a very wild cat, but she's got some street smarts."
"Yeah, it was one of those things, typical things where if you're on the street, you ask the other team, 'Hey, if we get in trouble, can you come help us? We'll do the same for you.'"
"You've got to have a certain level of cutthroat about you, you've got to be handling what you need to handle in the streets."
"You gotta be careful as a street individual, the rooms you enter because the rooms you enter dictate your outcome."
"Selling drugs is a better MBA in business than you can get in college."
"He said, 'Boy, you smooth, man. Come on, man. You already know what it is, man. We're in the streets, you know what coming with the streets. You know what I'm saying? You gotta have street smarts.'"
"Nobody ain't stupid you know what I'm saying ain't nobody gonna be like you know what let me just test big gangster real quick you know what I mean nobody wants that smoke."
"Everything I learned from the streets."
"Street smarts and social skills will get you farther than book smart."
"Entrepreneurship in the street though, better believe it."
"Street smart, you know. Very important. That's a very good education."
"I'm Street smarts I feel like I'm equipped like I could I can handle a lot if you put me in a situation."
"Street smarts are just as important as book smarts."
"There's the difference between being like Street tough and being sort of specifically trained to fight."
"You gotta choose your battles wisely, you gotta, like, really, somebody that's really from the street, you're gonna think about every move, like, it's literally chest, it's not Checkers, it's chest."
"Let me teach you something, bro. It's cool to act stupid, not be stupid. Can't get you close, bro. You be spraying sometimes. I don't get it."
"I'm glad I came from that area. I think coming from an area like that teaches you a lot of street smarts."
"Street smarts in an open environment require constantly revising knowledge of an unstable environment."
"You gotta pick your battles when you're a kid on the street. You gotta pick your battles. So in those days in the early '70s, I'm gonna try on, got there was a bunch of tough kids in this neighborhood."
"Terry Bogart is a friendly and all-around great guy with a rough upbringing he's no stranger to a street fight he'll help no questions asked and he'll be damn good at it too."
"Real hustlers are some real smart people."
"I'm street smart, you are intelligent, and you are smart."
"They're very smart, very very smart. They just don't come across as book smart; they come across as life smart."
"I took the genius that I've learned even from the street because it's transferable."
"If you know the streets and you know your books, can't no [person] out here [mess] with you."
"Don't let nobody trick you up off these streets."
"That's how we get it done in the street, y'all, you know what I'm saying? Why pay when you can do it yourself, stay blessed."
"You got to stay sharp out here, man."
"You have to have the confidence... that's what I learnt from the street."
"I knew the difference between dudes that played crazy and dudes that really is crazy."
"Business is business whether you're doing it on the street illegally or you're doing it legally in a legitimate world."
"Outside of absolute pure luck, the only chance you've got of getting through first round on this road is experience that you can only get from being out in the streets."
"Be smart, be safe, make good decisions, man. Stay on these streets by any means necessary."
"You're going to learn Street smarts from me, you're going to go to school and learn book smarts. If you know a little bit about both, you're going to be very successful."
"He's got great street smarts, just knows what he's doing at all times."
"You got street smarts and not just street smarts, but you got smarts of just human nature."
"Keep yourself safe in these streets, not about being paranoid, it's just about being discerning."
"I got all my hard sociology points on the streets, not from my professors."
"We're out here in these streets, making moves, making moves baby."
"You must be one with the streets, young blood."
"Brooklyn was a boarding school for the streets, get you ready for the real world."
"He acts older than he is, yeah, he's streetwise, he's mature."
"Moral to the story: never let these bees in your business, never let no one know how much money you got, and there's no loyalty out here in these streets."
"Man, this dude right here is the definition of real. He taught me so much when it came to the street, choosing your circle wisely, and most of all, loyalty."
"Street knowledge is the best knowledge."
"It's good to have somebody like that when you're out in the streets because you need to have somebody to watch your back."
"I think you're quite bright, you know. I think you're quite streetwise and a lot of things."
"That street smart stuff will keep you alive a lot more than knowing a math problem."
"I always kind of move smart though, I know how to move for real."
"On the street, you're going to be dealing with all the unknowns."
"Street smart, street wise, haters couldn't see me with three eyes."
"I live to be 52 not because I was lucky but because I was street savvy, I was smart, and I played the game well."
"You learn some valuable things on the street; you learn how to survive."
"I've got the street smart, the savvy, I certainly got the mouth."
"The most dangerous people are the people that are street smart and book smart."