Deacon Jones Quotes

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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• Growing up in the suburbs, I used to listen to punk rock, Brand New, Taking Back Sunday. And no one from my high school listened to it.

  

  Halsey
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Far

• The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • Men
  • Live
  • Truth

• It's nice to film in somewhere that you actually love being. Usually, you're in a studio for months on end, and you never see any daylight, so you really make the most of it.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Love
  • Nice
  • End

• If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • May
  • Style
  • Failure

• I love tennis, but I just don't like grass.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Like
  • Tennis
  • Grass

• The black community in Hollywood is very small and close-knit. Everyone has a common goal: to make a two-hour movie in 30 days.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Movie
  • Black
  • Small

• Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Want
  • Know
  • Never

• They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone.

  

  Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • Music
  • Different
  • Change

• When I say things that sound insane, like only the smartest million people should have the right to vote, well, I mean that.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • People
  • Sound
  • Vote

• You know, I love America. It's such a positive country.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Country
  • Love
  • America

• I don't feel like a pop star. I like being able to live my life the same as my mates. I don't get recognised much.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Life
  • Live
  • Star

• My personal view is always I'm in favour of anything that gives parliament a greater say. That's after all what we were elected for.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Always
  • Say
  • View

• My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him along with me all through my life. Every elderly man has a bit of my father in him for me.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Life
  • Father
  • Man

• If you're going to America, bring your own food.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • America
  • You
  • Food

• I feel like I can be a frontman; I feel like I have good songs.

  

  Albert Hammond, Jr.
  • Good

• I suppose the best advice I ever got, frankly the advice that changed my life, came from my uncle who told me to go to drama school and study acting instead of taking a job, because he said the job would always be there.

  

  Elizabeth Banks
  • Life
  • School
  • Job

• But when Neil called, I have to say that my heart soared. And the reason was, because it said so much about his recovery... that he was coming back to the world of the living.

  

  Alex Lifeson Rush
  • World
  • Heart
  • Recovery

• The idea that ageing was subject to control was completely unexpected.

  

  Cynthia Kenyon
  • Control

• I can be a bit of a science geek. I tend more towards reading about brain science, neuroscience.

  

  William Mapother
  • Reading
  • Brain
  • Geek

• I had grand visions of being in professional sports. But when reality set in, I went, 'Oh, OK. I'll just move to Hollywood and be an actor.' I didn't want to look back on my life and wonder, 'What if I had done this? Or I had done that?'

  

  Bailey Chase
  • Life
  • Done
  • Reality

• Not to be narcissistic, but I truly believe in order to make yourself better, you should see what you did before and what was good about that and what wasn't - same way a football team plays a game and then they go back and watch film.

  

  Jake Owen
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Game

• UEFA has a duty to protect the whole of football and not just the elite.

  

  Aleksander Ceferin
  • Football
  • Protect
  • UEFA

• 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
  • Football
  • Sports
  • Behinds