quotes about Deacons

last updated: November 28, 2023

Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career.
-- Jack Youngblood

Source : "Deacon Jones, football's original sackmaster, was the most feared of the Fearsome Foursome". www.foxnews.com. June 4, 2013.

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“It's so English to hate L.A. I'd like to say I love it, but I don't. It's such a weird place. If it were my choice, I wouldn't spend a day there. Everything shuts at 11. And everyone thinks they're so crazy and wild and liberal, and they're not!”

Source : "Starlet Fever" by Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. January 02, 2005.
“After the mines, what is fighting? Fighting is child's play”
“Be nice to everyone, always smile & appreciate things because it could all be gone tomorrow.”
“Almost every one flatters himself that he and his are exceptionable.”
“The crowd doesn't give a crap as long as you bring the money in.”
“The rains are rhythmic, coming religiously in the afternoons (after lunch has been eaten but before tea, so that the nights are washed clean-black with bright pinpoints of silver starlight hanging over a restless, grateful earth).”

Source : Alexandra Fuller (2014). “Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: Picador Classic”, p.202, Pan Macmillan
“I get very excited about my double stroller. Every time I look at it, I get a shot of adrenaline and joy because I think, This is real!”
“Making films is no longer a way of acting, it is a way of life.”
“I learnt a lot about coaching from observing other coaches. I would recommend that they attend coaching courses and coach development opportunities wherever possible”
“Sometimes when it goes really well, you wonder, who's that at the piano?”

Source : Interview by Jason Gross, www.furious.com. January 2001.