Jimmy Dean Quotes

Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.

~ 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

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

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

~ Jimmy Dean

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

~ Jimmy Dean

I think the kids in school that laughed at the clothes that we wore and the house that we lived in, and then my mother had to cut hair... I think that was a good motivator. Every time they laughed at me, they just built a fire, and there was only one way to put it out - to try and show 'em I was as good as they were.

~ Jimmy Dean

Nobody, man or woman, has ever wrecked a good marriage.

~ Jimmy Dean

I went further on less talent than anyone, but I was a damned good entertainer.

~ Jimmy Dean

My favorite song? 'Amazing Grace.' Anybody singing it. But the best it'll ever be done is by the Scottish National Pipe band and their National Orchestra. It'll bring tears to your eyes.

~ Jimmy Dean

God is bigger than people think.

~ Jimmy Dean

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

~ 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