Alex Smith Quotes

Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

I've always zoomed through life in a vain attempt to keep up with my sprinting brain. If I have to choose between doing something quickly and doing it right, I often select the speedier option.

People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.

Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.

Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.

I did all the stupid things you'd expect from a 21-year-old kid with money.

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.

People can do all kinds of things that maybe aren't wise in hindsight because of jealousy.

In real life, of course, it is the hare that wins. Every time. Look around you.

Even I admit I may have peaked too soon.

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure.

I'm very impatient. I am. That's the bane of my game. I don't think about what I'm going to do - I just go hit it, I don't stop to wait and think. Costs me two shots a round.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and bites you.

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

I've just sort of jumped into relationships and moved in with people way too soon.

I'm sure there have been a lot of boys I've chased over the years that has been fueled by alcohol and stupidity. But that's kind of how things happen - sometimes you have to do something really stupid, and sometimes it works out, and sometimes you fall flat on your face.

I think we might be going a bridge too far.

My biggest problem is overconfidence.

I definitely had a big head, and I'll be the first to admit that I made some bad decisions. But back when I was making those decisions, in my head I was doing no wrong.

As soon as you're put on a pedestal, you're easily knocked off it.

In the basketball world, guys like me, we tend to make bad decisions.

My biggest problem, when I was younger and when things weren't going so well, I was so enthusiastic, so anxious to make things better that I used to get myself in trouble.