This was a view Lockett had repeated on multiple occasions, claiming that his real love was property development, and boxing was just a way to fund that venture. “I play tennis for a living though I hate tennis, hate it with a dark and secret passion, always have.”, the fact he painted figurines from games during downtime at Vikings practices, “He could have found a cure for cancer ... and he’s not.”, “It was a means of making money, he didn’t think of it as anything other than that,”, “There were no girls at baseball games (in high school), why should I play baseball?”, “I blamed basketball for taking me away from home,”, “I don’t say I hate football but it’s not my passion,”, “Tony wasn’t an athlete, he couldn’t throw a ball,”. 5 Pro Athletes Who Swapped Sports. Today Delle Donne is one of the top players in the WNBA. Stephen Ireland was named Manchester City Player of the Season in 2009, aged just 23, yet the 2008-09 season ended up being rather the peak of the Irishman's career. In 2009, she said, "I blamed basketball for taking me away from home. I hated the sport. Top 15 Athletes Who Hated Their Sports ... saying "I really believe that boxers today and the people associated with boxing hate their own sport." In researching this article it became clear that far more boxers than any other type of athlete appear to have some trepidation regarding their sport. No one else married this actress, inspired this song or this song or sold this. They use hours and hours of their time training and committing to something that is never guaranteed to give anything back. Eubank was the WBO middleweight and super middleweight world champion at one time, going through 43 fights undefeated, before losing five of his last nine bouts. For some, the loss of love for the game can spell early retirement, whilst others can be indifferent to their sport for an entire career, yet experience great success. While some may debate the spot of a pro wrestler on the list, the story is too much to ignore. It doesn’t matter if you’re the best; someone else picks who they want in the top spot.”. This is hardly surprising given that while some sports are very physical, few involve being repeatedly punched in the head. Agassi wouldn’t be the first athlete to say he had been shoved into a sport by an overzealous parent. For most of us with average careers and 9 to 5 jobs, it's hard to look at some people in the world and expect them to hate their job. Even when athletes are in peak physical form, they can get hurt. Looks became less of his game and he became the world’s best player, at one point finishing his career with eight major titles and an Olympic gold medal. Way too many pro athletes have been in the news for putting their hands on women. He spoke often of his honesty which was usually blunt and dramatic, but he was also interesting and thoughtful. He is best known for his 56-game hitting streak, a record which still stands. by Matt Reevy on October 30, 2014. He's also never been shy of speaking his mind when asked about why he quit wrestling, saying to Sports Illustrated: "Well, that’s another thing in that phony world. As well as his eight Grand Slams, Agassi also won an Olympic Gold medal in 1996, staggering achievements if he really did hate tennis. A renowned trainer who remained anonymous recently spoke out, saying "I really believe that boxers today and the people associated with boxing hate their own sport." Florida Marlins second baseman Dee Gordon grew up the son of a big league pitcher, Tom Gordon and yet he still didn’t like baseball as a child saying: “There were no girls at baseball games (in high school), why should I play baseball?” Recently Washington Nationals infielder Anthony Rendon called baseball “boring.”. He was one of the most perplexing star athletes of his time. The most LOL-worthy things the Internet has to offer. The French-born Cameroon international sparked controversy in 2011 with his comments, with some outraged by what he said and other launching to his defense, praising him for his honesty and frankness on the matter, echoing what they believed many players felt but simply didn't have the courage to admit. Many baseball players have come slowly to the sport or admit they are not fans of it. They were both talented but not particularly pace right wingers, who could deliver great service from wide areas as well as being dangerous from dead ball situations; the pair even shared a first name. “You know, I tell people I don’t suffer from bipolar disorder, I live with it,” he told Rolling Stone magazine. In some ways, college athletes need to be even more careful than professionals in their online as well as offline behavior. He spent a year travelling the world, before becoming a financial analyst in London. Lesnar took the WWE by storm in 2002, winning the company's world title and quickly became one of their biggest stars. Gary Lockett was a very decent boxer who was at one time a world title challenger in the middleweight division. She took a liking to Kluwe and sat next to him and his father when they came to Bruins games that season before he came to college. When Vin Baker was a 20-year-old center on the unheralded University of Hartford basketball team, Sports Illustrated called him “America’s Best Kept Secret.”Recently, it was widely reported that the former pro basketball star, who earned $100 million during 13 NBA seasons, is broke and currently in training for a managerial position at a Starbucks franchise in Rhode Island. If he really hated tennis it didn’t show as he grew older. Andre Agassi, second from left, with father Mike, older sister Rita and older brother Phil in 1976. A few occupations that come to mind as impossible to hate would be Lenny Dykstra. He is consistently ranked among baseball's elite, despite not being able to play the sport between the ages of 28 and 30 due to World War II. His impact upon music, film, art, TV and many other aspects of American culture is titanic. College Athletes. Former England international Bobby Zamora has played for the likes of West Ham, Fulham and Tottenham, as well as winning two caps for his country in a very respectable career. Here is a list of athletes who hate their job and wish they could just do something else. The possessor of some of the finest hair in sports, the left back from France who played internationally for Cameroon always seemed tormented in his near-decade with Tottenham Hotspur. 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While it isn’t widely discussed in the sports world, many of today’s greatest athletes utilize a mental skills coach or sports psychology gurus in order to master the mental aspects of their respective sport. Yes, it's a good, good job and I don't say that I hate football but it's not my passion. Hardly the life of a man who hated tennis. A few years ago, I visited Kluwe in Minnesota when he was still the Vikings punter. Given the ease with which she plays, using her 6ft 5in height to power over smaller players while also being accurate shooting outside, it’s easy to forget she once quit the game, refusing to pick up a ball for months. 10 Athletes That Hate Their Job. When his high school team needed a kicker, Kluwe found out he was really rather good at it. He stopped playing regularly in 2010, aged 26 and officially retired in 2013, aged 29, admitting a lack of passion for the sport was his main reason for retiring. That would be impossible. However, it has been claimed that a large number of athletes simply view their sports as a job like any other. But still, accidents and deaths can come in any form at any time, so here is the list of Athletes Who Died On The Field. However, DiMaggio's biographer recently wrote, "It was a way of making money, he didn't think of it as anything other than that." The list features athletes from eight different sports. Meaning sometimes a hatred of sports, just like fear, strikes out. He was an aloof star, praised in history for never showing much emotion … perhaps because he never felt great joy as a baseball player. The genius child of a doctor and a scientist, Chris Kluwe fell into football rather by accident. “I don’t say I hate football but it’s not my passion,” he confessed in 2010. His detachment was part of his appeal but it made him complicated too. A ploy to sell books? Lockett lost his world title fight and announced his retirement from the sport with a record of 30 wins and only 2 losses, stating that he had, "never been a lover of boxing". With Agassi you never knew. Alex Morgan didn't take up soccer until she was 13 years old, very late by soccer standards, where starting young is important. At one time David Bentley was being lined up as a potential successor to David Beckham. DiMaggio was a three-time MVP winner and an All-Star player in every one of his 13 MLB seasons. O'Sullivan is a five-time world champion but is also a perfectionist who has suffered from clinical depression, and seems to state his intention to leave snooker every couple of years. Having retired at 31 though, Lockett recently returned to boxing as a coach, so perhaps he didn't hate boxing so much after all. Kluwe admitted to not being much of a football fan, and was better known for his love of video games, reading and later, activism - on issues such as same sex marriage and gay rights. Some may have enjoyed the sport as a child but once the pressures and strains of it set in, they began to lose their affection for the sport. I am a young sports writer with a particular passion for soccer. So I surveyed my friends and the internet for legitimate reasons why people hate sports — reasons that even sports fans can at least understand. “Tony wasn’t an athlete, he couldn’t throw a ball,” his co-star Karl Malden later said. Despite the sacrifices, athletes like Padgett continue to play the game they love. As a young man, DiMaggio apparently had little motivation to play the sport. I can remember times being on an airplane and wanting to punch the door open and jump out of the plane. However, it doesn't take into account all the many athletes who did have their promise wrenched away by the dreaded ACL injury. Eventually, Perkins learned to throw and his portrayal of Piersall, who had a nervous breakdown as a player, was outstanding. An eccentric who craved attention and was often a figure of dislike and ridicule, Eubank was a tremendous boxer, with an outstanding chin and very brave in the ring. A few months later he retired from football, probably one of the few ex-NFL players who did not anguish over giving up the game. Now she is three seasons into a professional career with the WNBA’s Chicago Sky where she has grow into of the league’s most dominant players. No one seemed to know who Agassi was. Elena Della Donne may have progressed to become one of the most distinguished basketball players in the WNBA, but at one time, she certainly hated the sport, and admitted as much. Early in the conversation he revealed that he didn’t like football much. Tattoos on pro athletes should be banned. So that’s why I thought, let’s look in the field of sports to find out if there are athletes who rose from the rock bottom to become the best in their career despite failures. That’s an identity crisis that I think I struggled with. Even the players with the smallest salaries still make lots and lots of money. He died in 1999, a man consumed with money and his image, demanding later in life to be called “Baseball’s Greatest Living Player” at all public functions. The most openly admitted soccer player to not be a huge fan of the sport is Benoit Assou-Ekotto. A couple of decades later and Kluwe had spent eight years with the Minnesota Vikings, as well as more brief spells with the Seattle Seahawks and the Oakland Raiders. Fortunately, athletes who use their platform to make a difference aren’t a rarity. No time was more disturbing than his denim tennis shorts phase. In sports, injuries are inevitable. No great professional athlete truly hates their sport. His high school team needed a kicker and he could kick. Despite such ability, the game wasn't in Baardsen's blood, and he retired at just 25. The only baseball player who might surpass DiMaggio’s prominence in American culture is Babe Ruth. Having looked so good with Blackburn Rovers and Tottenham between 2006 and 2008, when he broke into the England team, Bentley rapidly disappeared. By ADAM ORLA-BUKOWSKI | April 26, ... each of these athletes are famous for their prowess and skills as competitors and for being role models that young athletes look up to. But Richard Ben Cramer’s 2001 biography of DiMaggio: The Hero’s Life described a young man in San Francisco who was not motivated to play baseball, watching instead as the other boys played in local parks. But whilst Becks loved soccer, Bentley did not. Despite his 'hatred' of boxing, Eubank is still heavily involved in boxing, with his son being an up-and-coming star of the sport. The film crew brought in a baseball player, Tommy Holmes, to teach Perkins to throw. For these athletes, they overcame obstacles left and rift, going to show that nothing can get in the way of true perseverance in a goal-oriented person. Now back with his former club Brighton, Zamora seems to be enjoying the sport, but he previously went on record saying "I’m not a massive football fan, really. Agassi wrote, "I play tennis for a living even though I hate tennis, hate it with a dark and secret passion and always have." She took a year out from the sport, playing volleyball instead, before returning and beginning what would become a hugely successful career. According to the GOALS survey, one-third of student athletes noted that the physical demands of their sport made them struggle to find energy for other tasks. An eight-time Grand Slam champion, and widely regarded as one of the finest tennis players of all time, no athlete has been as successful in their field in spite of having a deep dislike for their sport as Andre Agassi. The Vikings did not seem to like having an activist punter and cut him in 2013. 1. A lot of people find it strange". Their personal ideas, or experiences or other motivational forces for the tats are not welcome on that forum. Kluwe is known to be a regular player of games such as Guitar Hero, World of Warcraft, League of Legends and more. He cited the early retirement of many and the lack of fights and willingness to fight even among top class boxers as prime evidence to support his belief. Efficiency statistics say one of the best seasons a professional player in the US – male or female – has ever had. Although, he was a prominent player of the team and well-liked in the industry, he never liked the sport. The fact he looks and acts like a ballplayer in the movie is part of what sets it apart from countless other sports movies whose action looks forced and awkward. Still Perkins once famously played an athlete in the 1957 story about baseball player Jimmy Piersall called Fear Strikes Out. In the build up to his most notable fight, against Nigel Benn, Eubank said, "Boxing is a mugs game, 99.99% of boxers get used and abused and disfigured.". Given his intense interest in gaming (the television in his living room was only for games and not connected to cable), the fact he painted figurines from games during downtime at Vikings practices and the time spent with his band Tripping Icarus, his lack of excitement for football was understandable. Some would say he was simply being one of the most honest athletes around, but it’s hard to watch Assou-Ekotto play and believe he is passionless about the sport. The agent stopped representing this pro soccer player in 2005, and the matter was still in the works to be resolved, but until it becomes resolved, Riis has been listed as one of the pro players who have gone completely broke. When pro athletes boycott games, they show disrespect for fans and their sport. Brian Williams. So it is hard to know how serious Agassi was in his 2009 autobiography Open when he wrote “I play tennis for a living though I hate tennis, hate it with a dark and secret passion, always have.” Was this an admission? Athletes are naturally sacrificial people. "I hate boxing." Kluwe grew up playing soccer as the genius son of a doctor and a scientist. Currently awaiting his first fight in the UFC, CM Punk grew to dislike the wrestling business towards the end of his tenure. He returned in 2012 as a part-time performer after a career in MMA. He contradicted himself often in his career, defined early by his ‘Image is Everything’ ad campaign for Canon cameras – a period when he became more about what he wore than how he played. All the athletes we mentioned, these 5 sports greats were able to enjoy hall-of-fame careers despite their ACL injuries. But while other tennis players hid their occasional boredom with the game, Agassi wore it openly. Five athletes who don't like the sport that they play. This arrogance and narcissism will lead many professional athletes to act like jerks, and this is during games, in interviews, in their personal lives and with their interactions with fans. But occasionally an athlete comes along who retires at the peak of his or her abilities. He later commented, "It is a great myth that football is easy, it's quite miserable compared to what I have now.". It can make you- or it can break you. Most would consider sports stars to be some of the most notable exceptions though. But there are players who love sports more than others, whose lives become the game they play for a living. 7. That would be impossible. That is a quote of Eubank's, and one of many on his rather low opinion of the sport which made him a superstar. I wasn’t built to get from ring to ring.'”. He seemed to find the Premier League to be a vain place and sometimes expressed his boredom with playing in England, despite the fact he was well compensated to do so. Years later, his mother Sandy would sigh when talking about her boy who picked football and say: “He could have found a cure for cancer ... and he’s not.” Football was almost an accident. These guys represent at team, a league/ organization, and sometimes a country. Quite a lot more players than let on are the same. 1 again in 1999 and embarking upon the most successful period of his career. Perkins, of course, was never an athlete but an actor most famous for playing Norman Bates in Psycho. He cited the early retirement of many and the lack of fights and willingness to fight even among top class boxers as prime evidence to support his belief. ... there’s no option to find a way out and this is exactly what binds a lot of current pro-athletes too. This is about those others, the ones who were either never consumed by their sport or came – for a time – to despise it. There could only be one man to head this list, and that is Andre Agassi. Asset-Ekotto said, "I don't say I hate football, but it's not my passion." No one can fake those hours of workouts and practice. For some, their heroism was highlighted by their passion for others and their sport. Tennis is loaded with players who were shipped off to camps as children to be force-fed an existence of rackets and bouncing yellow balls. Often described as the most natural snooker player in history and one of the greatest players of all time, this would be the equivalent of finding out Lionel Messi didn't love soccer or Barry Sanders wasn't a huge football fan. DiMaggio is not alone among MLB players, more recently Dee Gordon and Anthony Rendon expressed that they haven't always been huge baseball fans either. Throughout his playing days Agassi portrayed himself as caring more about celebrity and less about actually playing tennis, then months later he would say he was misunderstood. Joe DiMaggio knew there’s more to life than baseball. Most of us assume that professional athletes love their lives. I didn’t realize that feeling was having to leave my family – having to leave my sister who can’t even communicate with me when I’m gone.”. As you’ll see below, the list of athletes who use them consists of arguably many of the greatest athletes of all time. This came after high school, after three years of recruiting battles that drained her of her passion for playing. In 2010, she represented Team Canada at the 2010 Winter Olympics winning the silver medal after falling to Sweden in the finals. 1) Andre Agassi. 'Choose a job you love and you'll never work a day in your life,' or so says an old idiom, but we all know that the truth is most people do not love their jobs. He said he played for the money. What does it mean to be a good fake wrestler? ... is hardly the first time that a professional athlete has found him or herself attempting to make a switch from the sport that he or she is known for to one that’s new, at least in an official capacity. Cheryl is one of the top athletes in the sport of curling. Major League Baseball should fine all of the players for the New … As an upside: “I see from a different side of the street than most people. Ireland retired from international duty in the aftermath of the incident, aged just 21, and is currently a bit-part player at Stoke City. 10 Pro Athletes Who Really Hate Their Jobs. Neither might his significance as the graceful Yankees center fielder who made the hardest plays look simple. Most athletes have a small window of time in their professional athletic careers and are expected to live highly extravagant lifestyles. A pro athlete has likely been coddled since their talent at whatever sport they excel at was spotted as a kid. Part of the problem, Malden told Turner Classic Movies that Perkins was left-handed and was trying to play a ballplayer who threw right. All the athletes on this list were either known to not be particularly fond of their sports or expressed as much directly themselves. but he didn’t seemed enamored either. Or the words of his co-author? They play games for a living. Children idolize them for their skills and prowess in their sports. At 18, he had been signed up by Tottenham and even kept a clean sheet in the North London derby against Arsenal, as well as winning his first caps for Norway at the age of just 20. There will be many more athletes out there who don't love their sports, strange as it may seem, but have never openly expressed that this is the case. Whether their endurance over the years is fueled by pure love of the game, the star lifestyle or something altogether different (like avoiding bankruptcy), most athletes play through their prime. When she showed up to the University of Connecticut for her freshman year, she saw the amount of time she would have to commit to basketball and felt … nothing. She missed her family in Delaware, especially her sister who has cerebral palsy. Won a championship with the Bulls, signed by the Pistons as their highest paid player. Every time I played basketball I felt sick to my stomach. No great professional athlete truly hates their sport. Here are a few examples. Here are the top 15 athletes who hated their sports: Wrestling may not be a sport, but you try to look at Brock Lesnar and say he's not an athlete. They are in danger of sabotaging their potential careers, which have not even officially started. For many athletes, retirement is a concept that they do not wish to think about in great detail. Part of the confusion are the behaviors which are against the rules, but encouraged nevertheless as appreciated signs of doing whatever it takes to win. Mystery surrounded him. They do it to provide for their family." In 2007, Ireland claimed his grandmother had died in order to get off international duty, a claim that later turned out to be false. Few, if any, MLB players have transcended American culture in quite the way Joe DiMaggio did. However Lesnar left the company in 2004, as he had grown to dislike the grueling travel schedule of the business. Whether you love soccer or hockey or anything in between, when you see people spending their entire time doing something you love and being paid handsomely for the privilege, many are a tad jealous. But when the games started, Kluwe would pull out a book and read, leaving his father and Isabel to talk and watch the game that UCLA’s football recruit showed little interest in seeing. American/Norwegian goalkeeper Espen Baardsen seemed to have a very promising career ahead of him in soccer at one time. On leaving the business in 2004, he said: “I felt like I was a trapped animal. 141 in 1997, Agassi made an incredible return, becoming world no. After almost a decade at Tottenham Hotspur, Assou-Ekotto now plays in Ligue 1 with Saint-Etienne. Unique lists featuring pop culture, entertainment and crazy facts. Yet he never seemed to play with passion. He came from Las Vegas and seemed every bit a product of his hometown where nothing is real. Here are the good ones. Luckily for us, we live in an era when an ACL tear isn't the end of the line. A somewhat controversial inclusion, as Ronnie O'Sullivan certainly has a love-hate relationship with the game of snooker. After two days at UConn she returned home, enrolled at the University of Delaware where she played volleyball. DiMaggio wouldn’t be alone, especially today. “It was a means of making money, he didn’t think of it as anything other than that,” Jerome Charyn, the author of Joe DiMaggio: The Long Vigil told NPR in 2014. A controversial figure at time, Ireland took to Bebo (yes, Bebo), to say, "football is sh*t", adding, "why did i get stuck doin it." I don’t watch games on an evening or anything like that. 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