Deacon Jones
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.Collection: Games
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.Collection: Football
All men are created equal. After that, it's up to you.Collection: Football
It took me a long time to figure out that real big-time success comes from taking lots of small, ordinary steps in the right direction. And you can't ever take the next step until you take the first.Collection: Football
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.Collection: Baseball
Anytime you go upside a man's head - or a woman - then they have a tendency to blink they eyes. Or close they eyes.Collection: Eye
You'll find your life greatly simplified if you only worry about stuff you can fix.Collection: Football
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.Collection: Baseball
I did come up with the term "sack" to describe the devastation I was bringing on the poor, cringing quarterbacks in the NFL. "Sack the quarterback." That was nice. I thought it was lots better than saying, "Jones tackles the QB behind the line for another loss of yardage ..." It had a ring to it, and it caught on with the sports writers. But I tell you, doing it was a lot more fun than talking about it.Collection: Sports
I believe that if you die trying to be your best, the world is still a better place.Collection: Football
You are one of a kind, one in a billion, an incredible unique individual. The problem is, so is everybody else.Collection: Football
Memory is what you did. Life is what you're doing.Collection: Football
Know the difference between famous and great.Collection: Football
The only thing Native Americans ever did better than the rest of us is spirituality. Of course, that's everything, isn't it?Collection: Football
When I flew from Orlando to Los Angeles in 1960, I sat next to a guy from Disney who was paying 75¢ an acre for land. I thought he was some special kind of fool - and since they built the park, history has proven there was a fool sitting in one of our seats.Collection: Nfl
How are you going to do great things if you are not committed to your work.Collection: Committed
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.Collection: Football
There are all kinds of smiles. On the football field I mostly used the one where the hawk spots the dove.Collection: Football
And so now you think society is to blame for the mess you made of yourself?Collection: Thinking
The only rules not meant to be broken are those of love and virtue.Collection: Football
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?Collection: Football
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.Collection: Football
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?Collection: Football
I reserve the right to change my mind. But once I decide on something, I'm going to need a good reason to switch.Collection: Football
You're sacking them, you're bagging them. And that's what you're doing with a quarterback.Collection: Sacking
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.Collection: Football
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.Collection: Football
When it comes to your life's work, you can't take yourself too seriously. Even Jesus had an occasional joke with the boys, take walking on water, for instance - but there's a time and place for fun. Jesus never faltered when it came time to tip over the money stalls or to take his hard walk up the mountain.Collection: Football
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.Collection: Football
A nation that spends billions to fix international problems will not have much left over for the victims of tornadoes in Oklahoma.Collection: Football
I was the originator of smack. Some guys rattle with smack; with other guys it rolls right off their shoulders like nothing.Collection: Football