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Pro Athlete The Worst Career For A Jew

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Rabbi Yaron Reuven Short Torah Clips avatar
Rabbi Yaron Reuven Short Torah Clips

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it's the same thing with Jews playing sports it's the most ridiculous thing in the world you know you see a little Jewish guy you know trying to make it to the NBA he's 4 foot three and he's trying to be in the NBA like you're Jewish they're like 9 ft taller than you the ball is almost as big as you okay so you know how to dribble and somehow you got yourself to to dunk the ball doesn't mean you going to be a basketball player yeah but you know there was one Jewish guy that became okay one one do you know how many millions tried for them in their culture it's like every second kid is an NVA star why go go be I don't know go be a doctor or something go be something else go be something that's uh anyway it's not a good profession to be an athlete is the worst profession in the world I know most people don't think though but I know I used to deal with them as as clients when I was on Wall Street it's the worst profession in the world to be an athlete worst your career is very very short and your life is miserable because from the second you get a contract all of a sudden you acquire a 100 different friends that you never knew you had 300 family members you never knew existed and 500 advisors that convince you that you need them and 99.9999% of all of them are scammers which means that by the time you finish your average 5year career if you're in basketball five six years if you're in football 3 years baseball is a little longer but more or less it's less than 10 years like all of these Superstars that you see them they're still playing after 20 years those are anomalies they're like you know going to the Moon if they even went there like that that's that's what it is it's not it's not it's not normal to go and play for 20 years in any sport but the few the most of them last only a few years they make a bunch of money they a bunch of people steal it from them A bunch of people spend it for them at had one guy that I met he said said listen on my day I'm like what' you do on the day that you got a contract he said I bought five Range Rovers I said but you're only one person he said yeah but I bought one for myself one for this one one for that one one for five range RS on day one he spent a signing bonus I don't have to tell you that they declared bankrupt shortly later but that's what happens after their career two to three years 3 to four years four to five years whatever it is depending on the sport within two years 80% of them declare bankruptcy and they go into a financial situation much worse than they had before they even started Sports and you can't like do it somewhere else you know even if you go let's say from the NFL you go to the UFL or CFL yeah you're going from a place where they're paying you you know if you're terrible you're on a on a on a uh on a bench Squad you're still making a few hundred, a year whereas in the uh but if you're if you really have a real contract you get5 10 $20 million a year but in the uh in the UFL the the the number one paid person was $80,000 the guy working for UPS made more money than them so that's the thing the the they don't know how to handle money and uh they end up ruining all of it they get a bunch of money they declare bankruptcy and it become a very very miserable life short life so that's why it looks glamorous it's just like this world it's a world of Lies it all looks glamorous you're going to win a lot you're going to make a lot but in reality it's all fake it's all fake and that's why it's a terrible thing to bring kids into that world of of hoping to be an athlete hoping to be uh some type of uh you know uh Hollywood movie star or singer it's a terrible terrible uh uh path to go on because 100% he will fail even if he succeeds the failure will just be bigger or she or whoever it is because it ends everybody's career ends and it's not like a doctor that retires or a business owner that retires eventually and he could just simply live a normal life when they retire they live the rest of their life in misery cuz they they're living the past oh I used to run a 40 in a 42 now I can barely walk up the stairs oh I used to catch the ball and I used to do this I used to do that and now nobody even looks at him they just see a really really tall person he's also very connected to Roman Greek right sure the whole Roman mentality Greek mentality certainly good there was actually a guy here in in uh in in Israel that uh he's a religious guy but for some reason the Satan convinced him that it's a good idea to bring football to Israel and he contacted me and asked me if I want to support it and uh I told them why would I support Greece or or Rome I mean I don't understand why you're bringing this to Israel you want to play football go to America why bring it to Israel and he's bring it to dka to the religious community and he I'm helping kids what are you helping them with become Greek how is I don't know again I I understand his intention is good but the way is not you know the way is not and it's a uh it's it's because most people think that oh don't worry it's just fun for them it's a uh it's going to get them out of trouble and uh you know it's not like they're going to the NFL okay but you know that kid's mind is what if I do what if I do go to the NFL what if I do go to the Major League Baseball what if I do go to the NHL what if I do make it to the UFC become an ultimate fighter what if I do in his mind he's not doing it because he thinks he's going to be a loser he's going to play for a few years and stop he's thinking there he's a chance there a chance that may be the best and guess what he's if he fails that's the best thing that can happen to him but if he succeeds it's the worst thing that can happen to him because then he's going to continue living that life to to the power of a thousand with everything that comes with it and they it's it's says who is why someone that sees what's going to be born because I dealt with these people in my life because I played sport myself also it wasn't anything fantastic but uh I um I'm the Jewish guy small guy the uh and everybody was really really big but the point is is that because I know a little bit about it and uh I know that it's it's horrible horrible path and that's why the one of the things I hate the most is seeing young Jewish kids play basketball I think it's it's the most absurd thing in the world they could play for exercise for so on but when they take it really seriously like argue over it and they actually go play on teams and they travel to place to play I think it's the worst thing in the world you can do it's complete waste of time aside from wasting time it's a waste of your dreams it's a waste of your dreams there you know you don't have that much room in your mind for different dreams if your dream is to be this NBA star you're wasting your life the greatest investment that a person could possibly do is to invest as much as possible into K but not just any 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