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Top 25 Deacon Jones Quotes (2025 Update)

Deacon Jones Quote: “You are one of a kind, one in a billion, an incredible unique individual. The problem is, so is everybody else.”

1. “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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Deacon Jones Quote: “The only rules not meant to be broken are those of love and virtue.”

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

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Deacon Jones Quote: “Anytime you go upside a man’s head – or a woman – then they have a tendency to blink they eyes. Or close they eyes.”

3. “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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Deacon Jones Quote: “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.”

4. “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.”

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Deacon Jones Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

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Deacon Jones Quote: “And so now you think society is to blame for the mess you made of yourself?”

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

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Deacon Jones Quote: “How are you going to do great things if you are not committed to your work.”

7. “How are you going to do great things if you are not committed to your work.”

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Deacon Jones Quote: “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.”

8. “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.”

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Deacon Jones Quote: “I believe that if you die trying to be your best, the world is still a better place.”

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

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Deacon Jones Quote: “You’ll find your life greatly simplified if you only worry about stuff you can fix.”

10. “You’ll find your life greatly simplified if you only worry about stuff you can fix.”

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Deacon Jones Quote: “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?”

11. “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?”

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Deacon Jones Quote: “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.”

12. “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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Deacon Jones Quote: “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?”

13. “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?”

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Deacon Jones Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

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Deacon Jones Quote: “The problem a guy who lies all the time faces is he never can tell when anybody else is telling the truth.”

15. “The problem a guy who lies all the time faces is he never can tell when anybody else is telling the truth.”

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Deacon Jones Quote: “The only thing Native Americans ever did better than the rest of us is spirituality. Of course, that’s everything, isn’t it?”

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

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Deacon Jones Quote: “I reserve the right to change my mind. But once I decide on something, I’m going to need a good reason to switch.”

17. “I reserve the right to change my mind. But once I decide on something, I’m going to need a good reason to switch.”

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Deacon Jones Quote: “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.”

18. “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.”

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Deacon Jones Quote: “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.”

19. “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.”

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Deacon Jones Quote: “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.”

20. “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.”

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Deacon Jones Quote: “A nation that spends billions to fix international problems will not have much left over for the victims of tornadoes in Oklahoma.”

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

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Deacon Jones Quote: “All men are created equal. After that, it’s up to you.”

22. “All men are created equal. After that, it’s up to you.”

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Deacon Jones Quote: “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.”

23. “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.”

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Deacon Jones Quote: “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.”

24. “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.”

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Deacon Jones Quote: “There are all kinds of smiles. On the football field I mostly used the one where the hawk spots the dove.”

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

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Deacon Jones Quote: “Know the difference between famous and great.”

26. “Know the difference between famous and great.”

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Deacon Jones Quote: “I was the originator of smack. Some guys rattle with smack; with other guys it rolls right off their shoulders like nothing.”

27. “I was the originator of smack. Some guys rattle with smack; with other guys it rolls right off their shoulders like nothing.”

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Deacon Jones Quote: “Memory is what you did. Life is what you’re doing.”

28. “Memory is what you did. Life is what you’re doing.”

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