Michael Strahan
The Navigator
Judgement in the fog, money, risk and the call others cannot make.
Michael Strahan is The Navigator because reinvention, for him, is a matter of orientation rather than escape. He treats each new arena, GMA, Fox, game shows, production, like a sideline timeout before re-entering play, compartmentalized and deliberate. Every setback, from being doubted out of TSU to absorbing double-teams, becomes directional data rather than deterrence. Fifteen NFL years and a second career few athletes have matched testify to constant recalibration without lost momentum.
“What motivates me is to be able to do things that kind of show people that as an athlete, as a black man, I can do other things outside of hit somebody who's carrying a football.”
“If someone sees it as a successful failure, I'm still learning something, which is all I care about. I take something out of every experience.”
“Everything backs up to sports. I think about one thing, and when I'm there, I'm present — because you never know who's watching, and it may be the only one thing that somebody else does.”
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