Marshawn Lynch did an in-depth interview with SI where he made it clear he wasn’t ever coming back to play football. For a while people have talked about how good Lynch has been with his NFL money and he was asked why that is.
Here was his answer.
There was a story that you never cashed a game check—you saved all of your NFL salary money.
That’s false. I’m human. I’m very much human. If you pinch me, that hurts. I make mistakes, [but] I’ve also made some good decisions. But why would you wanna pocket-watch me?What do you mean by that?
Your eyes is on my pockets—you wanna know about my money situation.Everybody I’ve spoken to about you has referenced your financial savvy. What’s the source of that?
You ate cereal before?I’ve eaten cereal.
Alright. Have you ever had a roach in your cereal before?No.
You haven’t, right?I have not.
If you came from eatin’ cereal with roaches in it before, Dawg . . . Feel what I’m sayin’? You wouldn’t want to do that again, right? Once you’ve seen the lowest of the low, you don’t want to go back. But, like I told you before, it’s not me—I have a good team and some smart family members around me.
When you have struggled growing up, when you do get money it normally goes one or two ways. Either the Marshawn way where you are smart about it because you never want to be poor again or the other way where you just blow it all because you are just happy to have it.
We need more athletes to be more like Marshawn.