Jerry Jones Quotes

It's not very wise to keep a player who has just one year left on his contract and really wants to leave.

When I look at our roster, I'm sure all of you have printed that I'm coming up on 35, and given my situation and my salary structure and all that, yeah, I have to wonder if this team is going to make moves and they haven't.

Well, everybody is trying to make this a money thing. If you send me to another team, let's see what I ask for. I won't ask for nothing. I'll play under the same terms. So it is not Gary wants more money. Gary has money. What else do I need?

I'm realistic. And realistically, I'm not that type of player that earns that type of money any more. So I'd be willing to take a little cut to get a couple of extra years.

You cannot talk to a player who has a contract. It's not in my code.

I don't think it's right to think ahead to free agency.

I want to earn a contract. I don't want a contract because in the next year I'm a free agent, so they might look to tie me down.

The timeline is kind of coming to an end as far as leading up to free agency.

You realize that everything is a moving budget, and sometimes you've got to borrow from Peter to pay Paul, to make it happen.

Money is simply a tool to give you choices.

I never believed that one big bill is the way to go.

Never invest in a going concern until you know which way it is going.

Cowboys, just like the word says.

The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.

Sorry for the tune up between time, but what the hell, cowboys are the only ones who stay in tune, anyway.

Are you thankful for not being young?' 'Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?

I never, ever, ever let emotion get in the way of an investment.

The thing that bothers me the most is the recklessness and greed of the local ranchers, who run too many cattle back here, choking with waste the creek that runs through my property. There's certain times of day that the cowboys like to send them turds down the river. Them f**kers piss me off. if you gotta mess up the ecology of the world in order to raise a bunch of cows, well eat somethin else. I'm not a fan of the cowboys.

If you understand our salary cap, you have to be logical. If Barry Sanders , for instance, came out of retirement, if we were interested we probably couldn't get real interested. So you've got to temper your enthusiasm with the reality of our situation.

I was very lighthearted. This often the way when the abandonment of personal responsibility is enforced: neither wronged innocence or just guilt can seriously impair the sensation of freedom one has.

The "Ways & Means Committee" is a committee that's supposed to find the Ways to divide up the Means.

Patience, time and money accommodate all things.

The way to misuse our possessions is to use them as an insurance against the morrow. Anxiety is always directed to the morrow, whereas goods are in the strictest sense meant to be used only for to-day.

Speculation leads you the wrong way. It allows you to put your emotions first, whereas investment gets emotions out of the picture.

We must keep ourselves busy with finding ways to generate wealth for generations to come and work to pass down things to our children for them to pass down to their children.