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.
Deacon JonesThe problem a guy who lies all the time faces is he never can tell when anybody else is telling the truth.
Deacon JonesThe only thing Native Americans ever did better than the rest of us is spirituality. Of course, that's everything, isn't it?
Deacon JonesYou take all the offensive linemen and put them in a burlap bag, and then you take a baseball bat and beat on the bag. Youโre sacking them. Youโre bagging them. And thatโs what youโre doing with a quarterback.
Deacon JonesI 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