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
Travel around the world is amazing. New people. New-found family, really.
People look at you differently if you wear a bow tie, as opposed to a necktie.
We all have personalities, but in football a lot of times you don't talk about that because you want to focus more on the grit and grind of the season, instead of people's personal styles or worldly habits.
When I'm in the Switzerland backcountry and nobody around looks like me, people were like, 'Can I touch your hair?'
Louis Armstrong's 'What a Wonderful World' is my ultimate karaoke song. It is a wonderful world. People forget we only have a certain amount of time, and it can all end at any moment. Armstrong and Frank Sinatra's 'My Way' are the ultimate one-two punch.
What better way to get to know a culture than to go there and learn their sports? And I say to people who tell me they can't travel, 'How much did you spend at the mall this year? How many times did you eat out? Take that money and go.'
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.
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.
Because CoEd's doing incredible work in Guatemala so how can I not #tieoneon?