Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

- 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 t…

- Jimmy Dean

I've seen a jillion miracles. They're all around. Every green leaf is a miracle.

- Jimmy Dean

God is bigger than people think.

- 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 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

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 …

- 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 b…

- Jimmy Dean