Best part about being a professional athlete?

What do you think is the best part about being a pro athlete? Is it the fame? The money? The women? Playing the sport you most love for a living? The opportunities that arise from being big-time? Being able to make a difference in the community and being a role model?

To me, the money is so great and important, but IMO the most important thing is doing something you love doing for a living. These guys get to play their favorite game in the world and make money for it. To me that is the best part, because I don't think life is worth living if you aren't doing something you enjoy doing.

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Well, I think all the stuff you talked about is intertwined together. Getting paid to do what you love goes back to the money. With money, you get the fame, the women, the power. It all goes hand-in-hand. In this day and age, role models are very few and far between. It's mostly an "All about me" mentality when it comes to most pro atheletes.

In my opinion, the ones that get the most gratification are those that come out of broken or poverty-stricken situations. Guys who go pro early (out of high school or after their first or second year in college) to support their families. Atheletes that give back to their community once they've "made it". At some point, you're not gonna be able to play the game anymore, but you'd be able to go back and see the hospitals, schools, ect. you had a direct hand in creating for your neighborhood and community. Things like that last for a lfietime, long after you've retired.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Sex with whoever the fuck they want.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

At most, the highest salary the highest-ranking people at my work can make is about $1 million (this is JP Morgan Chase). The average MLB scrub makes about two a half times that for sitting on the bench and drinking gatorade. Good players make up to 25 times that.

I'm looking for steady work that pays $35,000-$40,000 per year. MLB players sometimes make that per hit!

So, uh, yeah...Best part is definitely the money. Any athelete who says otherwise is lying, I believe. At least as far as baseball players go.

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Winning.

I was speaking idiomatically.

You get to make alot of money doing what you love to do. If you play 3 years in the NFL and get the base salary, and don't spend it all like a dumbass. You'll make around 3 million. Hell, even the guys on the practice squads around the league make 250k a year.

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Originally Posted by BucPride

You get to make alot of money doing what you love to do. If you play 3 years in the NFL and get the base salary, and don't spend it all like a dumbass. You'll make around 3 million. Hell, even the guys on the practice squads around the league make 250k a year.

The NFL minimum salaries are insane. According to this site, the salaries for this season are:

0 years - $275,000
1 year - $350,000
2 years - $425,000
3 years - $500,000
4-6 years- $585,000
7-9 years - $710,000
10+ years - $810,000

It's insane that these guys that are career third stringers can end up making over $800,000 a year for holding a clipboard and taking practice reps.

I remember talking to a minor league baseball player that got called up for a short stint in the show. He said that he made as much in a week playing in the bigs as he did in an entire year in the minors. Fucking insane.

How ya doing, buddy?

Its probally a bit of it all with money and the sport you love being the main reasons


kinda makes me wish i would have got into football a while back

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

(provided you are a Russian sports star, of course)

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Originally Posted by Gratch

The NFL minimum salaries are insane. According to this site, the salaries for this season are:

0 years - $275,000
1 year - $350,000
2 years - $425,000
3 years - $500,000
4-6 years- $585,000
7-9 years - $710,000
10+ years - $810,000

It's insane that these guys that are career third stringers can end up making over $800,000 a year for holding a clipboard and taking practice reps.

I remember talking to a minor league baseball player that got called up for a short stint in the show. He said that he made as much in a week playing in the bigs as he did in an entire year in the minors. Fucking insane.

Good lord. The numbers I heard were a bit different, but still pretty close to that. Like I said, you'll make enough money to secure your future if you spend wisely.

There's nowhere I can't reach.