He didn't want to leave anybody behind," Richardson's friend Ladaron Clardy said. Richardson : "I just made sure that my immediate family was taken care of. And so then it came to everybody outside immediate family. You got people coming from everywhere.
Richardson : "You get calls, 'Man, my car's gonna get repo'd. Oh that's it? Alright, I'll send it to you. Richardson : "Wire it out. His dream of getting that degree was now assured and there was the possibility of so much more. His mother, his brothers and his uncles have all told him how important that is.
And so has the coach that has come to mean so much to him. He still leans on them all. He calls his uncle each week before a game to hear his assurance of how things will work out for the best. I want to be as good a student as I am an athlete. If he does in fact accomplish that, being as good a student as he is an athlete, he may be the next Shakespeare, cure cancer or be a Nobel Laureate, because that's just how good he is as an athlete.
Richardson said that it's important to him, his mother and his daughter all equally to finish his degree.
There is guilt over the time that he can't spend with his daughters, but he knows that life is about priorities now. Perhaps he is just the kind of man who finishes what he starts, who wants to set the right example to his own children and student athletes everywhere. This is in fact the reason why student comes first in the phrase student athlete. That's just how good an athlete he is. It's refreshing to see a man who has a clear picture of life and a game plan to get there.
Just as he knew as a young high school student that to strengthen his legs and ankles that running up a hill of sand over and over would help him get where he wanted to go, as a man, he learned what else he had to do first to make everything else work the way he wanted.
In an interview once, I asked him what accomplishment he was most proud of at this point of his career. Without hesitation, Richardson replied, "Becoming a Christian. Maybe that's how Richardson can juggle the toil of being a football star, a media presence, a student, a role model and a father. He has his priorities in order. He made mistakes along the way, but like the football injuries he's endured, he overcame them, he learned from them and they made him stronger and wiser.
Sadly, his friends and family. They also used his account to purchases things on Amazon , and they charged him for bottle service at bars. After discovering how much money he had lost, the running back stopped paying for everyone except his immediate family. He even went so far as to take his brother, Terrell, off his payroll.
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