Willie Smith
Willie Smith
Alto saxophone swing musician who worked with an array of celebrated musicians, including Nat King Cole.
ProfessionSaxophonist
Date of Birth25 November 1910
CityCharleston, SC
dig played second sure
We just wanted it more. They played hard, so we had to dig down deep. We made sure that we executed in the second half.
saw smile smiles time
Every time I saw him, he had a smile on his face, and that put a smile on my face.
pictures taking
Everything you can think of, he was there taking people's pictures and he was just an outstanding person.
feels felt great proud senior year
It feels good; I'm just real proud of myself. I felt like I had a great senior year to put me into this position.
invested somebody
We've got too much invested to let somebody come in and take over.
needs team whatever
When my team needs me to, I'll score. I'll do whatever it takes.
expected knife last pull stepfather
It was out of the blue. The last thing my stepfather expected was for someone to pull a knife and kill him.
beat defense felt good home prove shoulders tough
It was a tough game, but if we play good defense we can beat anybody. They beat us in the preseason and at home so we felt like we had something on our shoulders to prove to everybody.
catch front good
We want him to catch everything in front of us. We don't want him to catch any long passes. If we can keep him over the middle, we have good linebackers that can make him pay.
breaking everybody heard hit plane ran tornado windows
I thought a plane had hit the building. But they had tornado warnings out and we heard windows breaking and everybody ran for cover.
girlfriend last lost straw
I think when he lost his girlfriend that that was the last straw for him. She was his everything.
students
If the students see it as something they can put to use, then they are interested.
came fourth free quarter teammates
My teammates say the fourth quarter is my quarter, so I just did what I had to do. Westminster was tough. They wouldn't go away, but it came down to rebounding and free throws.
anxious bench bit came guys pulled step
Things got a little bit anxious after we started fouling out. But we had some guys who came off the bench to step up, and they pulled us through.