Alex Smith Quotes

Price is rarely the most important thing. A cheap product might sell some units. Somebody gets it home and they feel great when they pay the money, but then they get it home and use it and the joy is gone.

I sat in the green room at Radio City Music Hall for the 2006 NFL Draft. At my table, I was encircled by my parents, brother, agent, former coaches and close friends.

Draft day is a hectic day, especially for draftees and, more or less, for management.

The short-term vision is: I research on something which I can use tomorrow, and for some politicians it is even better if it's today. But if you do this, you can only do targeted research. If you only do targeted research, you lose the side-routes.

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

I have no preferred team, but everyone wants to go No. 1 in the draft. Even the guy who gets picked last in the draft wants to go No. 1. But I just know that whoever picks me, I'm going to be excited to play for that team, and I can't wait to see myself in 'Madden' on that team.

One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good.

It's not just the NFL. Every other league has a draft. It has been fundamental to the success of professional sports.

My first show sold within the first 3 minutes, and I came back to the studio and spent the next two and a half years making almost nothing.

You get quick money, it's beautiful, there's sunshine, but at the end of the day, you find out it's all a masquerade, baby. It's not what it seems.

You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

Do I consider the 2003 Draft class the best ever? Yes, absolutely!

It's all about starting momentum, hitting the ground running, and starting out hot.

I don't know if six picks in a draft is a record, it's not the kind of thing I would look at, but it's unusual.

The baseball draft is very different from the NBA or the NFL.

A lot of times you don't see that, doesn't matter when they're drafted, first round or not. You usually don't see guys come in and wow you.

At the end of the day you never know what team still wants what player. You just never know with the draft.

We are prone to seek immediate pleasure or good, however small, rather than remote pleasure or good, however vast.

It's quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.

Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course, or that a man should tell a lie? We have never seen, in our time, nature go out of her course; but we have good reason to believe that millions of lies have been told in the same time.

Engineers turn dreams into reality.

I love the classics but there are many new ideas to be made into reality. I'd rather be concerned with my own thing. There are many masters of classical piano so I'll leave it to them.

...a beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion.

Reality is above all else a variable, and nobody is qualified to say that he or she knows exactly what it is. As a matter of fact, with a firm enough commitment, you can sometimes create a reality which did not exist before.