Dhani Jones Quotes

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• There's nothing better than live music. It's raw energy, and raw energy feeds the soul.

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  Soul, Energy, Live Music

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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 yourself and critically understand how to collaborate and serve others.

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  Ties, Self, Collaboration

  "Bengals LB Jones Proves to Be a True Renaissance Man". Interview with Michael Fabiano, www.nfl.com. May 17, 2011.

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• When you wear a bow tie, doors open for you. Your posture is a little more erect; your shoulders are a little further back; your style is a little more dynamic. It's about the reestablishment of the gentleman.

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  Doors, Ties, Gentleman

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• 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.

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  Song, Two, People

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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 I'm done with football, whether it be travel, or becoming a doctor, or going off on a farm and raising chickens, which I'd also like to do, or climbing ten of the most difficult peaks in the world, or spending time backpacking in a flannel shirt and big boots, I'll know how to take off into the world.

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  Football, Art, Done

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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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 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.'

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  Sports, Years, People

  "Third Screen: Why I Love Dhani Jones, And You Should, Too". Interview with Vickie Karp, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 13, 2009.

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• I like a basic uniform for guys. Steve Jobs is my fashion icon, because he wears the same outfit every day. If you always wear the same thing, you make a statement. Then put a bow tie on and really stand out.

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  Fashion, Jobs, Icons

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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 on and off.

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  Passionate, Organize, Various

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I like to keep things classic, not lavish or blinged out. I don't even say that word. The last thing I want to be is over the top.

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  Want, Lasts, Classic

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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 so many people merging into the central community of New York City. This is the hub of America.

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  New York, Cities, America

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• 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.

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  Football, People, Focus

  "Dhani Jones: "I'm Gonna Be The First Black James Bond"". Interview with Daniel Riley, www.gq.com. December 10, 2009.

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• Ideas and thoughts and creativity is more of who I am than football.

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  Football, Creativity, Who I Am

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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 you have to be an all-encompassed athlete. You need stamina, strength, endurance and mental capacity. You also have to learn how to adapt in any situation. In the book, that's how all the sports helped me in my strategies for football and life.

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  Sports, Football, Book

  "Bengals LB Jones proves to be a true Renaissance man". Interview with Michael Fabiano, www.nfl.com. May 17, 2011.

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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 good.

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  Stories, Common, Synergy

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• I will be the first black James Bond.

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  Inspirational, Inspiration, Black

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• When you wear a bow tie, doors open for you.

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  Doors, Ties, Bows

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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 travel. Without it, I believe we lose the ability to not only understand others, but more importantly, ourselves.

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  Meaningful, Believe, Manhattan

  "Creating a Culture of Conversation" by Dhani Jones, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 11, 2011.

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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 that will to win; you can't see that, you can only watch that evolve over time.

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  Winning, Will To Survive, Survival

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• 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.

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  Mean, Guy, Able

  "Best Fantasy Football Tips From Dhani Jones". Interview with Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com. September 4, 2014.

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• I'm living my future as long as you're living in the present and realize how beautiful life is.

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  Beautiful, Long, Realizing

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

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  Country, Littles, Bits

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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 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.

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  Loss, Blow, Winning

  "Dhani Jones: "I'm Gonna Be The First Black James Bond"". Interview with Daniel Riley, www.gq.com. December 10, 2009.

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• Football is one side of me. Art is another. Travel is another.

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  Football, Art, Sides

  "Third Screen: Why I Love Dhani Jones, And You Should, Too". Interview with Vickie Karp, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 13, 2009.

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• Without creation, what are we but stalled in life?

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  Creation

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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 - to think and not think at the same time.

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  Sports, Football, Thinking

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