Peter Jones was an Australian Rugby League Player, and now behind the scenes in the sport. He is most famous for playing for the North Queensland Cowboys from 1995–2002, where he is now Football Operations Manager. He is listed by the Cowboys as one of their players of the decade. Peter played his early football for Tully Tigers Junior Rugby League.
In 2001 Jones was one of three players who testified against Wests Tigers player John Hopoate, who was found guilty of unsportsmanlike interference, in that Hopoate had inserted his finger into their anuses during the match.
Famous quotes containing the words peter and/or jones:
“That matches are made in heaven, may be, but my wife would have been just the wife for Peter the Great, or Peter Piper. How would she have set in order that huge littered empire of the one, and with indefatigable painstaking picked the peck of pickled peppers for the other.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Poor Casey Jones he was all right,
He stuck by his duty both day an’ night,”
—Unknown. Casey Jones. . .
Oxford Book of Light Verse, The. W. H. Auden, ed. (1938)