Scouting Combine 2000
Q&A with Virginia RB Thomas Jones
Saturday, Feb. 26, 2000
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| Q: What’s your greatest asset? Jones: I think I have good
vision, good quickness. I have the ability to make people miss. And I think I block well.
Those are probably my biggest assets as a running back.
Q: A lot of people compare you to Emmitt Smith. What do you think about that?
Jones: Emmitt Smith is a great back, and I’m honored to be mentioned in the same
breath with him. But I’m Thomas Jones. I have my own style. Hopefully, I can go out
there and make a name for myself.
Q: When you were growing up, did you always want to be a professional running back?
Jones: I always wanted to be in the NFL. You watch the guys, Walter Payton and Tony
Dorsett, when you’re little, and you never think you have a shot to be there. But I
feel blessed to be in the position I’m in.
Q: Your mother worked in the coal mines while raising you and your siblings. Did you
learn much from the hard work she did?
Jones: A learned a lot. Working where she worked, it wasn’t an easy job. Knowing
that every day she’d go in and something could happen to her definitely made me
appreciate what she was doing, and it gave me motivation to go out and work hard and play
hard every game.
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