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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 to me.

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Dhani Jones
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: February 22
American Football Player
Football Player
San Diego
California
Dhani Makalani Jones
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Every country I go to, I learn a little bit more about myself.
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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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Travel around the world is amazing. New people. New-found family, really.
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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 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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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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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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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.
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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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When you wear a bow tie, doors open for you.
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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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I like to do from racing my radio control cars to doing work at the zoo to poems to the TV show. There are a lot of things that I like to involve myself with, but I have a pretty packed schedule nine times out of ten. I have a good sense of working things in at the same time so that I can get all my hobbies in line.
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I will be the first black James Bond.
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Pretty much any place that I haven't been is the next place I definitely I want to go.
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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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Doing things out of the ordinary - out of the box - like jumping out of airplanes and landing in cities that you've never been to before, then finding your way through. That's the type of trip that excites me.
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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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