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Athletes that became successful business people
Topic Started: Dec 31 2013, 08:34 PM (2,431 Views)
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We hear so much about athletes going broke after making millions of dollars. Now lets take a look at some athletes that became successful in business. These athletes have made more money in business than they did playing sports.

Let's start with former boxer George Foreman, he's a very smart business man. He has made more money in business than he made during his whole boxing career. His George Foreman Grill has made him over 250 million dollars. He said that at one point he was getting checks in the mail for 4 million dollars a week for the sale of his grills.

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Former NFL player Herschel Walker has become a successful business person. He has started his own food company called Renaissance Man Food Services, which is now the largest minority owned food company in America.

http://www.georgiadogs.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/022213aaa.html

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Former NBA player Jamal Masburn has become a very successful business person. He has made more money in business than he made during his whole NBA career. He now owns 80 restaurants, he owns 37 Papa Johns Pizza restaurants, and he owns 30 Outback Steakhouses. He also owns Toyota and Lexus car dealerships.

http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2013/09/11/former-nba-star-jamal-mashburn-launches-venture-capital-firm/

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Junior Bridgeman played 12 years in the NBA he has since gone on to become a very successful business person. He owns 165 Wendy restaurants, he is the second largest Wendy franchise owner in the world. He also owns 118 Chilli's restaurants, altogether he owns over 300 restaurants.

http://www.blackenterprise.com/lifestyle/junior-bridgeman-from-the-nba-hardwood-to-the-boardroom/

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Former NFL player Roger Staubach has become a very successful business person, he has made over 600 million dollars in real estate.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/25280918

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Former NBA player Hakeem Olajuwon has become a very successful business person, he has made over 100 million dollars in real estate.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/06/realestate/commercial/06houston.html?_r=0

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Former NBA player Magic Johnson has become a very successful business person. He has made more money in business than he made during his whole NBA career. He recently became one of the owners of the Los Angeles Dodgers. He also owns his own line of movie theaters, Burger King and TGI Friday's restaurants. He owns Vibe and Uptown magazines and he also own the rights to Soul Train.

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Former NBA player Dave Bing has become a very successful business person. He started his own steel company called Bing Steel which became very successful. He just recently became the mayor of Detroit.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/1107/athlete-businessmen/content.6.html

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Former NBA player Shaquille O’Neal has become a very successful business person. He invested in Google before they started trading on the stock market, and that investment has made him 6 times richer. From there he has gone on to start his own real estate company called the O'Neal Group, his company is working on a billion dollar project in Miami to build 1,100 residential units. Shaquille also owns 55 Five Guys restaurants.

http://www.blackenterprise.com/small-business/shaquille-oneal-businesses-throughout-the-years-gallery/

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NBA player Chauncey Billups is a smart business person. Studying business under Junior Bridgeman, Billups now owns 30 Wendy's restaurants.

http://www.balloverall.com/content/chauncey-billups-now-owns-30-wendys-restaurants

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God Bless 'em all!

George Foreman is an especially great story. He was an Olympic Gold Medalist and Heavyweight Champion. He retired and became a minister and began working with needy children. He had been out of the limelight for about 10 years when he began boxing on the side to fund his philanthropy and became heavyweight champion again at the age of 45.
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