Jimmy Dean Quotes

• I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

  Jimmy Dean

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

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• You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.

  Jimmy Dean

  Luck, Trying, Ice Cream Sundae

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• Be yourself. Because if people don't like you as you are, they're not going to like you as somebody you're trying to be.

  Jimmy Dean

  Being Yourself, People, Trying

  Jimmy Dean, Donna Meade Dean (2006). “Thirty Years of Sausage, Fifty Years of Ham: Jimmy Dean's Own Story”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• Do what you say you're going to do. And try to do it a little bit better than you said you would.

  Jimmy Dean

  Trying, Littles, Said

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• Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

  Jimmy Dean

  Inspirational, Motivational, Poverty

  "Jimmy Dean: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. June 14, 2010.

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• I used to help my granddaddy make sausage. He would mix it up in a cleaned-out washtub with his hands, no gloves. Man, if we did anything like that today, they would jack the jail up and throw us under it.

  Jimmy Dean

  Men, Hands, Jail

  "Jimmy Dean: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. June 14, 2010.

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• I've seen a jillion miracles. They're all around. Every green leaf is a miracle.

  Jimmy Dean

  Fun, Miracle, Green

  Jimmy Dean, Donna Meade Dean (2006). “Thirty Years of Sausage, Fifty Years of Ham: Jimmy Dean's Own Story”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• God is bigger than people think.

  Jimmy Dean

  God, Thinking, People

  "Jimmy Dean: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. June 14, 2010.

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• Love is an ice cream sundae, with all the marvelous coverings. Sex is the cherry on top.

  Jimmy Dean

  Sex, Food, Love Is

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• A lot of things I am, and a lot of things I am not. But I think I'm about as good an American as there is. I love this country. It's been very, very good to me. And it will be good to anybody if they are willing to give of themselves.

  Jimmy Dean

  Country, Thinking, Giving

  "Jimmy Dean: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. June 14, 2010.

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• Somebody said he came from New Orleans, where he got in a fight over a Cajun queen. And a crushing blow from a huge right hand, sent a Louisiana fella to the Promised Land.

  Jimmy Dean

  Crush, Queens, Revenge

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• I made more money yesterday than I ever thought I'd make in an entire lifetime. But it's like somebody's going to take it all away from me and I'll be back in Texas, installing them damned irrigation wells. I didn't like that when I was sixteen. And I know I wouldn't like it when I'm eighty.

  Jimmy Dean

  Texas, Yesterday, Sixteen

  "Jimmy Dean: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. June 14, 2010.

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• I've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can't make any money. I tell you something... no one's going to play a benefit for Jimmy Dean.

  Jimmy Dean

  Play, People, Benefits

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• I won't go hunting with you, Jake, but I'll go chasing women.

  Jimmy Dean

  Friendship, Hunting, Jake

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