Jimmy Dean quotes

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. (Jimmy Dean)

You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.

Jimmy Dean

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

Jimmy Dean

God is bigger than people think.

Jimmy Dean

Love is an ice cream sundae, with all the marvelous coverings. Sex is the cherry on top.

Jimmy Dean

Do what you say you're going to do. And try to do it a little bit better than you said you would.

Jimmy Dean

I used to help my granddaddy make sausage. He would mix it up in a cleaned-out washtub with his hands, no gloves. Man, if we did anything like that today, they would jack the jail up and throw us under it.

Jimmy Dean

A lot of things I am, and a lot of things I am not. But I think I'm about as good an American as there is. I love this country. It's been very, very good to me. And it will be good to anybody if they are willing to give of themselves.

Jimmy Dean

I made more money yesterday than I ever thought I'd make in an entire lifetime. But it's like somebody's going to take it all away from me and I'll be back in Texas, installing them damned irrigation wells. I didn't like that when I was sixteen. And I know I wouldn't like it when I'm eighty.

Jimmy Dean

I've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can't make any money. I tell you something... no one's going to play a benefit for Jimmy Dean.

Jimmy Dean

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Occupation: American Actor
Born: August 10, 1928
Died: June 13, 2010
Quotes count: 10

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