Dhani Jones
Dhani Jones
Dhani Makalani Jonesis a former American football linebacker who played for eleven seasons in the National Football League. He played college football for the Michigan Wolverines, earning All-Big Ten honors for three straight seasons. He was selected by the New York Giants in the sixth round of the 2000 NFL Draft and played for the team for four seasons. Jones also played for the Philadelphia Eagles and the Cincinnati Bengals. In addition to his football career, Jones hosted the Travel...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionFootball Player
Date of Birth22 February 1978
CitySan Diego, CA
CountryUnited States of America
Dhani Jones quotes about
I mean at the world as a checklist. Once you got to a place, you check them off and if you love the spot, you might check it off twice. You'll always find your way to go back to those places.
Just because you wear a bow tie doesn't mean you're a nerd.
Whether a plane to Singapore, a subway in Manhattan, or the streets of Cincinnati, I search for meaningful conversation wherever I may travel. Without it, I believe we lose the ability to not only understand others, but more importantly, ourselves.
I do like Peyton Manning. I mean, you can't lose with a guy like that - especially with the amount of touchdowns he's been able to produce.
The most important thing regardless of my stats or anybody else's stats is the win-loss record. In the locker room people are always telling me, you're doing this and that. I don't really pay that much attention so long as we have a 'W' in that column; that's the kind of thing that makes me really happy. It blows all stats out of the water.
I found out that changing the perception of myself and the NFL, and reestablishing the notion of being a gentleman was important to me.
Football is a sport of paradox. It requires reaction, not reflection. Yet you must use your mind to calculate, to anticipate - to think and not think at the same time.
Ideas and thoughts and creativity is more of who I am than football.
I'm living my future as long as you're living in the present and realize how beautiful life is.
I will be the first black James Bond.
Turks and Caicos is one of my favorite places to go. I've been to some really cool places and it started out when I was young by wanting to go to different places.
When you wear a bow tie, doors open for you.
Because CoEd's doing incredible work in Guatemala so how can I not #tieoneon?
Every country I go to, I learn a little bit more about myself.