Latest Jerry Jones Quotes from Interviews

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• We have long moved away from some of the principles of law as to what is fair and equitable in the United States. We all see every day that's debatable, 50-50 in almost all cases.

  Jerry Jones

  Law, Long, Principles

  Source: bleacherreport.com

• We see every day that our very laws have both sides of the fence.

  Jerry Jones

  Law, Sides, Fence

  Source: bleacherreport.com

• I could hire every producer in Hollywood - 2,000 producers, let's say - and they couldn't come up with all the soap operas, in season and out of season, that NFL programming gives television.

  Jerry Jones

  Nfl, Giving, Opera

  Source: bleacherreport.com

• It's the premium time, the fourth quarter. October, November, December and now, if you will, going over into the first quarter in January. But really, football, that's when the interest is in the game.

  Jerry Jones

  Football, Games, Firsts

  Source: bleacherreport.com

• Other sports culminate at different times of the year, but the NFL is in the fourth quarter - that's where the money is.

  Jerry Jones

  Sports, Years, Nfl

  Source: bleacherreport.com

• Sports that are continuous and never stop don't give us the opportunity to segment our messages.

  Jerry Jones

  Sports, Opportunity, Giving

  Source: bleacherreport.com

• You could have a player that gave you some iffiness but his talent would make a real contribution, but you had to have an overwhelming base of players so you know exactly what you had.

  Jerry Jones

  Real, Player, Talent

  Source: bleacherreport.com

• The NFL is in premium interest time, in the fourth quarter [of the business year] when you have Thanksgiving, Christmas, and that's when we try to get the most decision-makers in front of the television, in the fourth quarter.

  Jerry Jones

  Nfl, Years, Decision

  Source: bleacherreport.com

• There are a lot of people with money, but not with the passion to really go spend it.

  Jerry Jones

  Passion, People

  Source: bleacherreport.com

• If people have the ability to see it, and you spend the money to put the wow factor into it, they will reward that entity or that team or that business, and they will then say they appreciate me, they appreciate what I'm about, and they will support it.

  Jerry Jones

  Team, People, Appreciate

  Source: bleacherreport.com

• Anybody involved in sports in Missouri knows it's a great sports state. It is a great sports state, particularly in basketball and baseball. Particularly. Not to demean football, but it's a baseball state and a basketball state.

  Jerry Jones

  Basketball, Sports, Baseball

  Source: bleacherreport.com

• Only 7 percent of NFL fans have ever been inside an NFL stadium. Seven... have ever been inside. So the NFL is certainly about the Colosseum of Rome. It can't be a studio game.

  Jerry Jones

  Nfl, Rome, Games

  Source: bleacherreport.com

• I take a good feeling away from what football brings.

  Jerry Jones

  Football, Feelings, Good Feeling

  Source: bleacherreport.com

• And I completely am one of the most sensitive in that area as far as the NFL is concerned.

  Jerry Jones

  Nfl, Sensitive, Concerned

  Source: bleacherreport.com

• The part of football you don't see with all the buddies I ever had, we might have gone out and thrown some passes, but we never went out to knock the hell out of each other just to do it. You do that when the time comes to push the ball downfield or keep it from going down the field. That's why I think football has a great place.

  Jerry Jones

  Football, Thinking, Balls

  Source: bleacherreport.com

• Is [football] for everybody? Of course not. But it is a meaningful contribution beyond, I think, other alternatives.

  Jerry Jones

  Meaningful, Football, Thinking

  Source: bleacherreport.com

• You don't see young men walk out and say, "Hey, let's go knock the [stuff] out of each other." You say, "Let's hit some grounders. Let's play catch. Let's shoot some baskets."

  Jerry Jones

  Men, Play, Stuff

  Source: bleacherreport.com

• We've all got to get on the same page.

  Jerry Jones

  Pages

  Source: bleacherreport.com

• You talk about the [armed] service teaches you how to depend on each other, the service makes you aware of the common good and strips that down. Guys who go into service get to have that. But that's a high price to pay in this day and time with going into service.

  Jerry Jones

  Guy, Pay, Common

  Source: bleacherreport.com

• I promise you that during my life, I was more concerned about not letting people down, about doing my part, than I was ever into what it did for me. That is one of the great things about sports, and frankly, football really does instill that.

  Jerry Jones

  Sports, Football, People

  Source: bleacherreport.com

• Everybody is pretty good in the first quarter. Second quarter, you have a little bump or two on you coming into the half. By the time the third quarter comes around, you're tired, you're laboring. When you come to the fourth quarter, it calls on your character.

  Jerry Jones

  Character, Tired, Two

  Source: bleacherreport.com

• There's no question that the striving, the stuff that you got out of [sports]. The depending on someone right beside you. Sitting here and calling on yourself when you're tired or getting through something painful, watching your teammates do the same. Everybody feels good when you first walk out there.

  Jerry Jones

  Sports, Tired, Feel Good

  Source: bleacherreport.com

• I grew up with great coaching, and it had nothing to do with sports. I had great parents. I really got some great input from there. They were entrepreneurial, middle-class business people.

  Jerry Jones

  Sports, Class, People

  Source: bleacherreport.com