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Dhani Jones

(1978) American Football Player

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Dhani Jones is an American football player, best known for The sportsman.

Quick Facts About Dhani Jones

Born: February 22, 1978
Profession: American Football Player
Notable works: The sportsman

About Dhani Jones

Dhani Makalani Jones is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker for 11 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). 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 Channel series Dhani Tackles the Globe and the VH1 show Ton of Cash. Jones also was on the CNBC series Adventure Capitalists.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Dhani Jones

I will be the first black James Bond.

Black

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Travel around the world is amazing. New people. New-found family, really.

Around the world

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When it all boils down, its about embracing each others stories and maybe even finding that synergy to collaborate for the common…

About

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If you're passionate about life, and you love what you do, you learn how to organize yourself and switch your various sides…

Life

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Pretty much any place that I haven't been is the next place I definitely I want to go.

Havens

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The most important thing regardless of my stats or anybody else's stats is the win-loss record. In the locker room people are…

Attention

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I always have a positive reaction to Times Square - you've got so many people passing through here, so many cultures, and…

America

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There's four main pillars to the bow tie - self-representation, service, collaboration and critical thought. You have to understand how to represent…

Bow tie

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My parents took me around the world when I was young, so I caught the bug. Every person is different when he…

Around

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Football is a sport of paradox. It requires reaction, not reflection. Yet you must use your mind to calculate, to anticipate -…

Anticipate

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Doing things out of the ordinary - out of the box - like jumping out of airplanes and landing in cities that…

Airplane

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Whether a plane to Singapore, a subway in Manhattan, or the streets of Cincinnati, I search for meaningful conversation wherever I may…

Ability

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Human survival is something that you can't see in another person; you can see if someone has that will to survive or…

Evolve

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Without creation, what are we but stalled in life?

Creation

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Turks and Caicos is one of my favorite places to go. I've been to some really cool places and it started out…

Cool places

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When I was younger, I used to wrestle, and I feel that it contributed to my athletic ability because as a wrestler…

Ability

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I found out that changing the perception of myself and the NFL, and reestablishing the notion of being a gentleman was important…

Found

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The bow tie started off with one of my friends, Kunta Littlejohn. He said if you want to be anybody, you've got…

Anybody

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Paul Robeson was an athlete, Rutgers valedictorian, lawyer, writer, actor in movies and plays, great voice - a black male doing it…

Actor

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I want everybody to travel, to travel and not be afraid.

Fear

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What better way to get to know a culture than to go there and learn their sports? And I say to people…

Better way

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Football is one side of me. Art is another. Travel is another. As I mature, I can organize it so that when…

Art

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Every country I go to, I learn a little bit more about myself.

Country

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I would love to be a grinder on some race yacht.

Love

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I like Louboutins, but some women think they can just put on Louboutins and they're stylish, and that's not the case. Someone…

Case

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