Jimmy Smith
Jimmy Smith
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth8 December 1925
CountryUnited States of America
fifteen kids played
I just came from Aspen, Colorado and they had fifteen kids I played for and they all played horns.
ahead happy mistakes work
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.
basketball best effort quarter
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.
biggest excitement
The atmosphere's not there. Our team's excitement wasn't there. But the biggest thing is we got a victory.
high intensity lead maintain men school tough
It's just so tough in high school for young men to get a 15-point lead and maintain the intensity and the concentration.
basketball jeopardize love mad player playing risking worth
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 baseball/football player playing basketball and I love him for it.
colleges
All the colleges I played, most of the colleges, they were white.
flew reached upset wins
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.
ask backup best both guy identity issue remains strong
Our identity still remains the same; we've just got another guy at the helm. He's the quarterback. He has a strong arm. Our backup is a quarterback, too. He's mobile. We've got the best of both worlds, if you ask me. Quarterback isn't the issue for us right now.
bar call community early eve lives measure people program saved service valuable
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.
came guy introduced
My first recording, a guy came down to Philadelphia and heard me play and he introduced me to Alfred Lion.
people
People like the idea of the trio and so I did mostly trio.