63 Quotes by Thomas Jones

No one had ever made it big from my town until I was able to make it to the NFL and now the big screen. The journey from my town to where I am now has taught me how to be resilient and fearless, and for that I will forever be grateful.

The hardest thing I've had to overcome was being from my small coal-mining town of Big Stone Gap, Virginia. My mother was a coal miner for nineteen years, and the expectations of making it out of my town were slim to none.

My inspiration is my hometown.

I feel like there's no such thing as failure.

The common perception is it only happens to people who aren't paying attention.

Many do with opportunities as children do at the seashore; they fill their little hands with sand, and then let the grains fall through, one by one, till all are gone.

Friends may come and go, but barbecues accumulate.

I feel like there’s no such thing as failure. When something doesn’t go the way I want it to, I learn from it, and I accomplish more than I initially expected to.

When you see a black guy on TV, he’s always a thug or always portrayed as someone that’s in trouble. It spreads the message to everyone else that that’s who we are. People often don’t try to understand black men as a whole. We’re creative, strong and influential.