Thank you, graduates. Please be seated. It’s an honor to address the college athletes who are going on to the pros this year. If I may, I’d like to offer just a few pieces of advice.
Every now and again turn off Nintendo, shut off Spectravision and open a book. We already have enough jocks who think the Brothers Karamazov are the WWF tag-team champs.
If you ever hear yourself saying, “They offered me $81 million? That’s an insult!” find a tire iron, go into a quiet room and hit yourself very hard on the shin.
Marry someone who has never heard of you.
Now that you’ve made it, practice twice as long as you did in college. The hardest worker in the NBA is Michael Jordan. What does that tell you?
If you write a book, read it before it comes out.
Be careful with your money. Write your own checks. None of this power-of-attorney crap. Get an agent and a lawyer, and tell each the other’s a crook.
Shock the world: Apologize when you screw up.
Read it all; this was also used in yesterday’s sermon by yours truly.
This is old but NEVER outdated! It’s great!
Kendall, I’m going to send it to MY pastor with the recommendation that he use it in a sermon, too!
So you used this Kendall. Ha ha ha ha How did it go down in the congregation? You know I think of the Red Sox catcher, Jason Varitek, who said of a multimillion dollar deal he struck, that, well, he had to think of his wife and children! Dude, is that thoughtful or what?
Larry
Great sermon Sunday! Thanks for posting this, I was hoping to get a copy of this speech. Now, if you’d only post your sermons for all to hear . . .