Friends always ask, “Why are athletes so bad at money?” The truth is, people are bad at money. Athletes just have more of it to be bad with. I have so many stories of people, friends and family members, who were throwing money away and didn’t...
“I’m 33 years old, black and retired.” I love that opener when I’m speaking at corporate events. And yet there is something beyond. In the NFL, being able to choose to retire (not having the game retire you) can a tremendous gift. And retirement life should be...
Multiple times in my life, I’ve received bad news. The death of my grandmother. My father needing a kidney transplant. Being released (that means fired) from an NFL team. Minor disasters have cropped up too, like popping a tire when I had a guest in town,...
There I was, lying in the grass. One cleat on, one cleat God knows where. Making sounds I didn’t know I could make, having pain I didn’t know I could have. In my freshman-year college football practice at Notre Dame, a player was literally beating the...
There I was, after my third back surgery, lying in a dark hotel room in a lot of pain. On the phone my agent told me, “The Eagles are going to release you.” I was out. Worse, I didn’t know if I was going to ever...