35 Star Athletes Who Had No Love For Their Own Sport

Darren - September 25, 2020

35 Star Athletes Who Had No Love For Their Own Sport

Darren - September 25, 2020

4. Shane Supple

Definitely not the most famous name on this list, Supple is nevertheless a very interesting story. To all intents and purposes, it looked like the young Irishman was living the dream as an up-and-coming goalkeeper for the Championship soccer team Ipswich Town in the UK. Who wouldn’t want to play professional soccer at an elite level?

Coaches touted him as a future international and Premier League star. However, he missed his native Ireland and quit the sport despite his bright future. Instead, he returned home to play amateur Gaelic football. Supple was just 22 at the time so this was a unique move. He decided that family and happiness was more important than all of the riches in the world.

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3. Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson

Jackson is a former UFC light heavyweight champion. He first earned popularity during his time with Japanese promotion PRIDE. His combination of violence and sheer brutality made him a fan favorite. However, the truth is that the former A-Team movie star never loved the sport.

His main love is gaming. He prefers to spend his days smoking marijuana and playing videogames rather than training and fighting. Competing helped him to earn the money to make a very comfortable life for himself. But it never felt like it was his purpose in life.

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2. Chris Eubank

It’s rare that an athlete can be so successful yet maintain such contempt for their own sport. Yet that was exactly Eubanks’ situation as one of the best boxers on the planet. The British former WBO middleweight champion once went unbeaten for 43 fights but still claims that he ‘hates boxing.”

One of boxing’s most eccentric characters, Eubank described the sport as a “mug’s game” and also pointed to the fact that many fighters end up injured and disfigured. However, despite this, he supports his son in his endeavor to become a recognized world champion in the sport.

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1. Andre Agassi

Did anybody have more of a love-hate relationship with their sport than Agassi? The American experienced extraordinary success in his sport. An eight-time Grand Slam winner, Agassi was also an Olympic gold medallist. But despite this, he claimed to have no love for the sport.

In his 2009 autobiography, he revealed his loathing for his life as a tennis player. “I play tennis for a living even though I hate tennis, hate it with a dark and secret passion and always have,” he wrote. That’s a shocking thing for an elite athlete to openly admit. Many people hate their jobs but they expect athletes to feel as though they are living the dream.

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35 Star Athletes Who Had No Love For Their Own Sport