Laurence Maroney talks about the shock of sudden wealth after being drafted, how money changed the people around him, and why he warns his kids about losing themselves to success.
The only person that's going to stop you is you. So I tell my kids that, hey, you can be whatever you want to be. I'm talking about the whole place erupts. And I think once I actually heard it on the tv, that's when realization kicked in. Like, wow, it's happening.
People's true colors do come out. And it's hard. It's a hard thing, you know, I think. And if you have big heart, you really can get taken advantage of and.
Really know what to do with the money when I get it. So why they taking so much money? And you just watch how people change when it comes to big money. And I ain't, you know, I always been a person that I never wanted the money to change. Me not saying, oh, I'm me because of sports, but in a sense, I am me because of sports. And so when it was going, it's like, who am I? People come from nothing. Get the world, lose it all and get it back.