Quotes from Dhani Jones

I will be the first black James Bond.

When it all boils down, it's about embracing each others' stories and maybe even finding that synergy to collaborate for the common good.

Just because you wear a bow tie doesn't mean you're a nerd.

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.

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.

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

The one thing that holds people back from working out together is that they don't want to smell around other people. Your olfactory sense is the primary sense in your memory, and you don't want to be part of anyone's memory thinking that you smell bad.

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

I started rockin' the BowTie when I was a rookie with the New York Giants.

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

Without creation, what are we but stalled in life?

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.

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.

People look at you differently if you wear a bow tie, as opposed to a necktie.

The bow tie started off with one of my friends, Kunta Littlejohn. He said if you want to be anybody, you've got to rock the bow tie. I dismissed it at first, but later he told me he had non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, so I decided to wear the bow tie to support him. And as he got better, I came to learn the power of the bow tie.

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.

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.

We all have an artistic side that we have to express if we want to live a life that feels whole.

I watch reality TV, but unless you have been part of that crew, unless you've sort of been immersed in that culture in what's happening, unless you have been in that concentrated moment, you wont believe it unless you're there. And with 'Ton of Cash' we just hope that we captured all of the best moments.

When I'm in the Switzerland backcountry and nobody around looks like me, people were like, 'Can I touch your hair?'

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

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

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

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