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.

Deacon Jones

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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

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

Deacon Jones

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

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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.

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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

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

Deacon Jones

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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

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Know the difference between famous and great.

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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

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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.

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

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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

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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

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

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