"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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“But if you want to know the truth, the weirdest thing that has happened has been my discovery that people who attend the conventions are filled with love.”
“What business had I to think of one that never thought of me?”
“Well, comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.”
“Those who go to Heaven ride on a pass and enter into blessings that they never earned, but all who go to hell pay their own way.”
“To be alive is sufficient evidence that we are needed in the world. Otherwise we wouldn't be here.”
“There is no meaningful distinction between eating flesh and eating dairy or other animal products. Animals exploited in the dairy industry live longer than those used for meat, but they are treated worse during their lives, and they end up in the same slaughterhouse after which we consume their flesh anyway. There is probably more suffering in a glass of milk or an ice cream cone than there is in a steak.”
“This is the way I want to die. Torn apart by angry fans who want me to play a different song.”
“On the whole, however, it is only out of pride or gross ignorance, or cowardice, that we refuse to see in the present the lineaments of times to come.”

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