That chopped up version doesn't make much sense. Here's the whole thing.
http://www.buzzfans.com/sports/story...-5331523c.html
here's the meat of the linked article.
Smith rarely talks while he's working through injuries, but he made an exception, pausing in the middle of the locker room as a large crowd gathered around him and Hall's comments were read.
"This is a business and that is the way football is," Smith said. "I'm happy he's grown up and realized that. But I mean, football is football. This is a man's game but at the same time we are playing a boy's game. We are having fun. We are playing a kid's game and we're men and we enjoy it.
"I find it real comedy, ... I guess when you are on the top you have a lot of people try to knock you down. Some people are lower than others on the totem pole by age, performance and talk. So when you're the court jester and you're talking to the king, you've got to do stuff like that. But other than that, I'm not going to play games with little kids. There's no reason to.
"When you talk you obviously are insecure about something and if you talk long enough, you'll hang yourself. And obviously he pointed out things that are in his craw and in his collar. I guess that's what happened. I guess that last play has been real significant in him. This is football and I'm going to enjoy playing football and that's really it."
Smith wasn't finished talking and rejected the notion that Hall's comments would have any bearing on whether he played Sunday.
"If you think one guy can make me decide if I'm going to play or not, you're checking the wrong oil," Smith said. "I'm not going to justify myself. Nothing is going to predicate over one man. No man is more valuable than injury or any of that stuff.
"If that's the kind of game he's trying to play, he's barking up the wrong tree because this is a big tree."
Steve Smith reaction to Dee Hall
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