Deacon Jones Quotes

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• 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.

  Deacon Jones

  Games, Giving, Guy

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• 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.

  Deacon Jones

  Football, Thinking, Nfl

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

  Deacon Jones

  Football, Men, Nfl

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• 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.

  Deacon Jones

  Football, Real, Nfl

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• 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.

  Deacon Jones

  Baseball, Mean, Player

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

  Deacon Jones

  Football, Nfl, Worry

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

  Deacon Jones

  Eye, Men, Tendencies

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• 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.

  Deacon Jones

  Baseball, Bats, Bags

  "Deacon Jones Dies at 74; Made Quarterback Sack Brutal and Enthralling" by Richard Goldstein, www.nytimes.com. June 4, 2013.

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• 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.

  Deacon Jones

  Sports, Football, Fun

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

  Deacon Jones

  Football, Unique, Nfl

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

  Deacon Jones

  Football, Believe, Nfl

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• Memory is what you did. Life is what you're doing.

  Deacon Jones

  Football, Memories, Nfl

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• Know the difference between famous and great.

  Deacon Jones

  Football, Nfl, Differences

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

  Deacon Jones

  Football, Native American, Nfl

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• 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.

  Deacon Jones

  Nfl, Land, Guy

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

  Deacon Jones

  Committed, Great Things, Ifs

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• 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.

  Deacon Jones

  Football, Teenager, Nfl

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

  Deacon Jones

  Thinking, Nfl, Blame

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

  Deacon Jones

  Football, Nfl, Hawks

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

  Deacon Jones

  Football, Nfl, Broken

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• 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?

  Deacon Jones

  Football, Winning, Nfl

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• 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.

  Deacon Jones

  Football, Book, Nfl

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• 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?

  Deacon Jones

  Football, Hard Work, Men

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

  Deacon Jones

  Football, Nfl, Mind

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

  Deacon Jones

  Football, Oklahoma, Nfl

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