28 Quotes by Deacon Jones

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Know the difference between famous and great.

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

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.