Deacon Jones Quotes

#1. Know the difference between famous and great.

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#2. When I was a teenager, I was so dumb my mamma knocked me off the porch with a broom. You wish you had so good a mamma.

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#3. You'll find your life greatly simplified if you only worry about stuff you can fix.

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#4. First, you've got to get the job. "Yeah, I can do it," I would say. When I was a kid, I could do anything. Lucky nobody ever asked me if I could fly a jet plane.

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#5. There are all kinds of smiles. On the football field I mostly used the one where the hawk spots the dove.

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#6. The only thing Native Americans ever did better than the rest of us is spirituality. Of course, that's everything, isn't it?

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#7. If you feel like you want to die, it's time to sit down and make a list of all the things you haven't done yet.

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#8. How are you going to do great things if you are not committed to your work.

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#9. I developed a term that is used in the game right now called sacking a quarterback. Sacking a quarterback is just like you devastate a city or you cream a multitude of people. I mean it's just like you put all the offensive players in one bag and I just take a baseball bat and beat on the bag.

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#10. The problem a guy who lies all the time faces is he never can tell when anybody else is telling the truth.

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#11. You are one of a kind, one in a billion, an incredible unique individual. The problem is, so is everybody else.

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#12. Somebody told me when Abe Lincoln was a young man, studying by firelight, he said, "I will work hard. I will prepare myself. And my time will come." And you know, that's exactly what I said about myself and football - What do you think? Were Abe and I both just lucky ducks?

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#13. The only rules not meant to be broken are those of love and virtue.

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#14. I believe that if you die trying to be your best, the world is still a better place.

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#15. Memory is what you did. Life is what you're doing.

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#16. Be patient with the negative people of the world. Take a moment to think how they are helping you clarify your own thinking and firming your own resolve. Then, headslap them out of your way.

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#17. You hear all this stuff about inner peace. Hey, there's nothing wrong with it, but I say, hit that line hard. Crack that book - Do your very best all the time and inner peace will take care of itself. The Deacon guarantees it.

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#18. Anytime you go upside a man's head - or a woman - then they have a tendency to blink they eyes. Or close they eyes.

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#19. And so now you think society is to blame for the mess you made of yourself?

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#20. I never was very big on praying for victory. For God to give a big win to the Denver Broncos, wouldn't He have to take it away from somebody else, say, the Green Bay Packers?

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#21. All men are created equal. After that, it's up to you.

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#22. I was the originator of smack. Some guys rattle with smack; with other guys it rolls right off their shoulders like nothing.

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#23. I reserve the right to change my mind. But once I decide on something, I'm going to need a good reason to switch.

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#24. You take all the offensive linemen and put them in a burlap bag, and then you take a baseball bat and beat on the bag. You're sacking them. You're bagging them. And that's what you're doing with a quarterback.

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#25. A nation that spends billions to fix international problems will not have much left over for the victims of tornadoes in Oklahoma.

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#26. When I see guys huddling up after the game, to pray, that's what scares me about the game. I'm a Baptist, but I'm also a quarterback killer, and I ain't praying with you. But I will give you 30 seconds to ask your Lord and master to keep me from killing you.

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#27. How can you possibly be sympathetic to every fool on the planet? Just the other day, I heard a man whining about his hopeless love of cross-dressing. Call me unenlightened, but I started to laugh.

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