Jimmy Smith
Jimmy Smith
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth8 December 1925
CountryUnited States of America
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I'm all about getting training from somebody that used to work with NBA players. That aspect really stood out from the other schools, being able to have a person work with you that used to work in the NBA because that's where I want to go.
I did my first recording. It was called The Champ.
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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.
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It's just so tough in high school for young men to get a 15-point lead and maintain the intensity and the concentration.
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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.
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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.
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A lot of rookies wish they could open up the season like he did.
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We're more settled. A new regime means changes, and things have settled down.
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We're just so excited because we've been through a few losing seasons, where it's been just miserable around here, and now we're winning and glad we're in the playoffs. We're just happy about life right now and everything's great.
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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.
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We're in a position where we're flying under the radar. We're not being talked about on TV shows. When they mention teams in the playoffs, it's like the Jaguars are the last one. That's fine. I like it that way. When we beat New England, that says it all.
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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.
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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.
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I played with Sam Lay, Jimmy Reed, Big Walter Horton, Big Moose Walker, and all those guys.