Jimmy Smith Quotes (44 Quotes)

We'll win games so we won't have the problem later this year. It's understandable.

Yeah, you know everybody has somebody that they patterned themselves after.

We won't take people from bar to bar, but if they give us a call we will take them home. There's no way to measure how many lives this program may have saved during the years it has been in operation, but we feel that this has been a very valuable community service for everyone on the roadways during New Year's Eve and early New Year's Day.

Three months. I was playing the organ for three months. It was a challenge for me in the beginning.

I am not happy with the work that we put in. We made a lot of mistakes on offense, something that we can't have. We have a lot of work ahead of us.

He looks rested. He was bouncing around out there. As bad as it was for him to have the injury, it may turn out to be a good thing as he's rested and looking sharp.

I'm concerned that we're not putting up a lot of points. We need to step it up and make more plays.

Byron made a good call. He told me to run a slant and go. Fortunately I ran a good enough route for him to make the easy throw.

It was like this in 1996 (when the wild-card Jags reached the AFC Championship after two upset wins on the road). We just kind of flew under the radar, and we didn't get a lot of respect. We like it like that.

When you have passion on the court, good things are going to happen. We have tried to play this year without passion and we just can't do it.

People like the idea of the trio and so I did mostly trio.

I just came from Aspen, Colorado and they had fifteen kids I played for and they all played horns.

We had our chances but we didn't play smart. And I can't blame them for that that's my responsibility when they don't play smart. We didn't look like a well-coached team out there at times but we played hard.

We are dedicated to making our roads safer for everyone, that's why we've had this program for 19 years now.

Tell him to switch places with us.

I heard Mr. Wild Bill Davis. I heard him play in 1930 and he told me that it would take me fifteen years just to learn the pedals, the pedals of the organ and I got mad.

We are a good basketball team. Don't let anyone fool you, we can be as good as we want to be. Tonight we ran up against another good basketball team.

We ran the same offensive and defensive plays in the first six minutes as the rest of the game. We just started to play South Lenoir basketball. Tonight was just a good team effort. We showed a lot of heart tonight.

I did my first recording. It was called The Champ.

He has found out by going up there, life is certainly different in the big city and in the business. He's found you have to have your guard up to be apart of it and still be who you want to be.

That's the best quarter (of basketball) I've ever coached. It wasn't just the points, but the way we got them. The effort on defense.

We all know Fred is the catalyst of this offense and to see him get that gain up the middle, it's a big boost for the whole team.

My boys told me they'd rather play than practice.

That was a long time ago.

I liked big band now, big band is better.

There's not a one of these cakes worth less than 100.

Brandon's the heart and soul of our basketball team. He was possessed early in the game but the guys stepped up well in the second half in his absence.

All the colleges I played, most of the colleges, they were white.

My first recording, a guy came down to Philadelphia and heard me play and he introduced me to Alfred Lion.

I always had the facial hair so I looked older than I was.

It's just so tough in high school for young men to get a 15-point lead and maintain the intensity and the concentration.

We had our chances. We just would get a run and then make mental mistakes. But (Clinton's) a well-coached basketball team with some good players.

And then when I found my sound, it took me two and a half weeks to find my sound and when I did I pulled out all the stops, all the stops I could find.

I know we have great fans. I'm going to blame it on the weather.

My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed.

Michael Coleman, now that was a boy that taught me some stuff too.

The atmosphere's not there. Our team's excitement wasn't there. But the biggest thing is we got a victory.

I played with Eddie Taylor's son, Tim Taylor and Carey Bells son Lurie Bell.

I played with Sam Lay, Jimmy Reed, Big Walter Horton, Big Moose Walker, and all those guys.

It wasn't worth risking his future. He was mad with me because he wanted to play. But I'm not going to jeopardize a young man's future. He's a baseballfootball player playing basketball and I love him for it.

Ninety-five percent of my audience was white.

I don't have to say anything. You guys know. Now is the time to make plays. That's exactly what I do. That's why I'm here.

We've won five in a row, but if we start playing a little bit harder and a little bit smarter, we can be a good basketball team. We're not playing quite up to what I believe our capabilities are, but we're in a tournament and you got to win to advance. The big thing is that we got the win tonight.

When someone passes away like that, you tend to remember that person like a saint. He wasn't a saint. But he handled himself all the time like people around him were important to him all the time.