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.

Deacon Jones

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Deacon Jones
Age: 74 †
Born: 1938
Born: December 9
Died: 2013
Died: June 3
Actor
American Football Player
David D. Jones
Real
Bigs
Step
Long
Comes
Ordinary
Time
Next
Took
Ever
Football
Nfl
Firsts
Taking
Lots
First
Steps
Direction
Take
Small
Figure
Right
Success
Figures

More quotes by Deacon Jones

Image
Know the difference between famous and great.
Deacon Jones
Image
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
Image
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
Image
There are all kinds of smiles. On the football field I mostly used the one where the hawk spots the dove.
Deacon Jones
Image
Memory is what you did. Life is what you're doing.
Deacon Jones
Image
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
Image
And so now you think society is to blame for the mess you made of yourself?
Deacon Jones
Image
You are one of a kind, one in a billion, an incredible unique individual. The problem is, so is everybody else.
Deacon Jones
Image
All men are created equal. After that, it's up to you.
Deacon Jones
Image
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
Image
I was the originator of smack. Some guys rattle with smack with other guys it rolls right off their shoulders like nothing.
Deacon Jones
Image
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.
Deacon Jones
Image
You'll find your life greatly simplified if you only worry about stuff you can fix.
Deacon Jones
Image
How are you going to do great things if you are not committed to your work.
Deacon Jones
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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
Image
The only rules not meant to be broken are those of love and virtue.
Deacon Jones
Image
I believe that if you die trying to be your best, the world is still a better place.
Deacon Jones