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to get to. We got knocked down a lot, and American sports. Jaworski is one of the reer pretty quick, so plan accordingly.”

our coaches just kept telling us to get best examples of a player who knew his Jaworski did. And now he works on
back up, work harder, work smarter, and time on the ield was not going to last for- golf courses, he is leading a company to

ind a way to be successful.
ever and prepared for a life after football.
positive growth, and he’s doing it all in
“In business, you’re going to get “You have to put your money away and his adopted home of New Jersey with the

knocked down, you’re going to have you have to get good advice. You need a voices of those old football coaches still
people beat on you, and you can’t throw good agent or someone that represents barking in his head.

in the towel,” he says. “You just have to you in a very positive way,” Jaworski says.
And like any good business owner, he’s
keep getting better and better. By getting “The average NFL career is short. getting his hands dirty, too. Even if that

knocked down, I learned those important You’re going to be on to your second ca-
means illing the occasional divot.
lessons and those are the ones that stick

in your mind.”

A LIFE AFTER FOOTBALL
Jaworski has made a successful career
THE SAME UNCOMMON
out of being on television and working in
golf, which makes him among the minor-
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ity of professional athletes. According to

Wyatt Investment Research, 78 percent KNOW AND TRUST.
of NFL players and 60 percent of NBA

players ile for bankruptcy within ive
years of their retirement from the game.
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“I try to pass my experience on to
younger players,” he says. “They don’t
To Help You Grow.
always listen. When you are 23 or 24 and
making a lot of money, you think you’re

invincible. That’s just the nature of the
game, and to a certain extent you’ve got

to feel that way. But the number-one
thing, and this is something I understood

when I was younger, is the average NFL
career is 3.5 years. I try to impress upon

these guys that by the time you’re 25,

your career is likely to be over.”
Matt Elam, who earned more than

$700,000 in base salary as a Baltimore
Ravens safety his rookie year, got a job

at a Finish Line sneaker store at a mall
in Florida during the ofseason after his

rookie year to prepare for a life after
football in retail. Terrance Ganaway

played two seasons as a running back for
the New York Jets and St. Louis Rams

but made headlines more for his work of
the ield when he took a job at a Jimmy

John’s sandwich shop in Texas during the
ofseason. Ganaway is no longer in the

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