Jimmy Smith
Jimmy Smith
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth8 December 1925
CountryUnited States of America
easy good ran route run slant
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.
jimmy played
I played with Sam Lay, Jimmy Reed, Big Walter Horton, Big Moose Walker, and all those guys.
michael taught
Michael Coleman, now that was a boy that taught me some stuff too.
colleges
All the colleges I played, most of the colleges, they were white.
handful hear jimmy knew liked losing people saying step
I always hear it. I just liked the way it set up. They said Jimmy is losing a step that he can't do it anymore. It's been the story of my career. It's always been people saying I couldn't do it. I knew I could do it. You knew I could do it. There's always a handful of people.
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.
fifteen kids played
I just came from Aspen, Colorado and they had fifteen kids I played for and they all played horns.
pulled stops took weeks
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.
cakes less worth
There's not a one of these cakes worth less than $100.
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.
mom
My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed.
blame great
I know we have great fans. I'm going to blame it on the weather.
open rookies season wish
A lot of rookies wish they could open up the season like he did.
boys
My boys told me they'd rather play than practice.