Top 76 Quotes & Sayings by Jerry Jones

We, as a league, we have not in any way changed our desire to do everything we can to make it safe, make it safe as to head injury. We hope and will support any data that would give us more insight into any short- and long-term consequences. We would support that.

I've tried to get cute - and I don't mind saying tried to be cute - at the quarterback spot.

The only way to break out is to gamble - take a chance with that first pick if you wanna dramatically improve your team.

The question of many college quarterbacks is can they operate in the pro game, in the pro system. Can they not only function under the early, especially with our game, but can they do it efficiently?

Tebow would never hit the field.

You wouldn't want to see the size of the check that I would write if it would for sure get the Dallas Cowboys a Super Bowl.

I can tell you, 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.

I know when I make a decision, I'm increasing my own personal work day.

If he can basically prepare, be the starting quarterback, come in and execute and keep his head right, then I feel good about Weeden.

I enjoy being with my family and hunting with my children.

Romo was a miracle.

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.

Television has always been our No. 1 competition. But I know firsthand that you can create an experience you can't get on television. I also know that the social experience has an appeal.

I paid more for the Dallas Cowboys than anyone prior than that had ever paid to get involved in sports. But I wanted to be a part of the future of the Dallas Cowboys.

Sports gives us the grandest opportunity of all to talk about reaching down and helping up or getting on somebody else's shoulders.

We feel good about our running backs as we have them right now, and we will continue to see how they progress.

I lost my tolerance for a lot of things I probably should have tolerated.

I drive a Lincoln Town Car.

You come to our stadium and look at the aura of 100,000 people. You look up there and see an Army tank coming at you. You see it on a TV screen, it's one thing. You see it at a movie theater, that's something else. When that thing's coming at you 70 feet high and 180 feet long, now that looks like a tank.

One thing that we've invested a lot of in, that we all live by, is the power of the commissioner.

I probably should have had a little more tolerance with Jimmy Johnson. Seriously.

I never had naming rights at Texas Stadium.

For me, I think that, certainly, the fact that Las Vegas has a gambling aspect to it is far overshadowed by the entertainment value, if you will, family appeal, that you have, the convention appeal. So it does not have disfavor with me, in my opinion, relative to being an NFL city.

When it's the caliber of fight that Canelo Alvarez and Liam Smith is, that's a big deal, and what I've tried to do since we built this stadium is have the great sport events.

I've never wanted anything as much as I want to win the next Super Bowl.

Risk takes on a lot of different forms, be it financial, the draft slot, something physical.

This quarterback Weeden can drive the ball down field. He's a thing of beauty on throwing a football. His passing motion and his arm, frankly, you won't see a more gifted passer, power, accuracy, the entire aspect of it.

It's free of hip dialing. You can have some pretty confidential conversations and not get overheard by the camera man by talking into this flip phone.

Only 7 percent of NFL fans have ever been inside an NFL stadium.

I personally think that the visibility that the Cowboys have, the kind of interest we have, is best served and best used by showing people that are contrite, know the mistakes they've made, and want to try to go in a different direction.

Nobody is thinking they're going to come out here and put a team here and become a multimillionaire. I don't know anybody that comes into the NFL like that.

Stats are for losers. They relish in them.

You look at anything I've been a part of, it's when the laboring, the fatigue, when some of those things happen, that's what shows what you're going to be.

The stat is the score. And when you don't win that score, nothing good happens.

If we had picked Manziel, he'd guarantee our relevance for 10 years.

Any pick you make, or any player you sign, something can go wrong.

It wouldn't be the worst thing in the world if we didn't have a salary cap.

We in the NFL unquestionably are in sports and competition, but we're also in entertainment, and that's the entertainment capital of the world. It just bowls you over when you see the opportunity in L.A.

When I look back on my life, I overpaid for my big successes every time. And when I tried to get a bargain, get it a little cheaper or get a better deal on it, I ended up usually either getting it and not happy I got it. Or missing it.

I am a monkey fan.

We are in a situation where we can have a developing backup quarterback because of the excellence of Tony Romo. We can have that behind him. To me, that's what you're ideally striving for.

But if you look at teams that want to share more revenues, they're teams that don't have a lot on the table. They've long since not had any serious investment in their team.

Have we gotten too full of ourselves? Possibly.

Personally, it was hard to see Emmitt in red.

I think my greatest moments in life are family moments, births and marriages.

I tried to get us what I thought was the equivalent of a Romo with Quincy Carter in the third round.

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

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.

Nobody is thinking they're going to come out here and put a team here and become a multimillionaire. I don't know anybody that comes into the NFL like that

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.

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

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

I have never had a problem dealing in areas of ambiguity. I can make a decision and not have it all lined up just right.

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

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.

We are continuing to look for ways that we can do something that's good for both of us. Good for both of us being the Cowboys relative to relief as to our cap management and good for him that would maybe be some pluses for him on his contract.

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.

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.

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.

Y'all should come to Cowboys Stadium and watch us beat the Giants' asses.