Deacon Jones Quotes

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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.
• I was the originator of smack. Some guys rattle with smack; with other guys it rolls right off their shoulders like nothing.
• 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…
• 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.
• 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 -…
• I believe that if you die trying to be your best, the world is still a better place.
• I reserve the right to change my mind. But once I decide on something, I'm going to need a good reason to switch.
• 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…
• Know the difference between famous and great.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• The only rules not meant to be broken are those of love and virtue.
• Memory is what you did. Life is what you're doing.
• All men are created equal. After that, it's up to you.
• The only thing Native Americans ever did better than the rest of us is spirituality. Of course, that's everything, isn't it?
• A nation that spends billions to fix international problems will not have much left over for the victims of tornadoes in Oklahoma.
• You are one of a kind, one in a billion, an incredible unique individual. The problem is, so is everybody else.
• 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.…

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