what is it? for me, it s always just been trying to i feel like nobody cares about what you did in the past. you have to be motivated to be your best this year. everyone is showing up to buy season tickets for this season, not for what happened last year, or two seasons ago. i feel like people want to see me do great. they follow their sports heroes and favorite sports teams, they want to see the thrill of victory. when i make the commitment to play, it s an all encompassing commitment. i want to go out and perform at my best, and it requires a year round effort to do that. it s challenging as you get older. things change in life. your life when you are 25 is different than 35, which, i look at 35 and i think, man, my life was so simple at 35 and now, at 45, there s so many more unique challenges to it and i still got to put my time and energy where it needs to be. i feel like when hits football season, you know, that s where
beholden completely unto himself, unburdened by community and others using vaunted platforms to disseminate pseudo science to elevate and separate themselves. why do you think some of these sports heroes have turned out to be so sell-serving during this pandemic? some even lying about their vaccination status at a time when their voices needed to spread the advice of public health professionals to keep everyone around them safe? i think the biggest reason is because they don t believe they re a part of this anymore. i think one of the biggest things that s happened over the past few years is that the this decade, whether we re talking about trayvon martin or george floyd or colin kaepernick, this decade will be remembered for the revival of the athlete s political voice that they became involved in social movements. and they have completely undermined all of that goodwill during the pandemic. they have been one of the most
himself, unburdened by community or responsibility to others, using vaunted platforms to disseminate pseudoscience to elevate and separate themselves. why do you think some of these sports heroes have turned out to be so self-serving during this pandemic? some even lying about their vaccination status at a time when their voices needed to spread the advice of public health professionals to keep everyone around them safe. well-i think the biggest reason is because they don t believe they re part of this anymore. i think one of the biggest things that s happened over the past few years is that the this decade, whether we re talking about trayvon martin or whether we re talking about george floyd or colin kaepernick, this decade is going to be remembered for the revival of the athletes political voice, that they became involved in social movements. and they have completely undermined all of that goodwill during the pandemic. they have been one of the more obstructionist voices and
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