Colorado football head coach Deion Sanders said nothing brought him peace like Jesus did.
“I didn’t have peace, and I thought people, places and things would give me that. Even the accolades, they didn’t,” Sanders admitted in a conversation with Hallow’s Jeff Cavins. “I received every darn accolade you could think of.”
“And on the journey to go on to the Super Bowl and win and everybody went out and partied that night and I couldn’t get myself to do it, but I sat right there on the bed and said, ‘You went in,’” Sanders recalled.
“That wasn’t the goal?” Cavins asked.
“It was the goal of sports but not the goal of life,” Sanders responded. “I just didn’t have peace. That wasn’t it. It wasn’t fulfilling.”
In another interview, he described that time of his life as “going through hell at the height of everything.”
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“Shortly after that, I just had to come to the Lord with my hands up and say, ‘I’m done. I can’t do it anymore. You got me. I give up. God, you take me,'” he recalled while talking to Bear Grylls.
Sanders, who many know as Coach Prime, not only is a two-time Super Bowl champion, but he also is a “College Football Hall of Famer, Pro Football Hall of Famer, and the only person to play in both a World Series and Super Bowl game,” Hallow shared on Instagram.
Now, aside from coaching the Buffaloes, Coach Prime uses his platform to share his faith in God.
“In this life you’re gonna experience Joy & Pain but always remember to never think you’re alone. God is always right there whenever u need him. Sometimes God won’t alleviate the pain but that same pain will teach u, reach u & prepare u for the Joy u will experience,” he wrote in a post on X.
In another post, he encouraged, “Trust God & not yourself when it comes to you! You’ve lied to yourself in the past, looked the other way & tried your best to do your own thing but nevertheless when it don’t workout u come back to God! Let’s give GOD the 1st, 2nd & 3rd opportunity to be GOD!”
For Sanders, there’s no role model better than Jesus.
“Oftentimes, you got to understand those things that you see, those things that you clap for, those things that you cheer for, those things that you idolize, they’re not role models; they’re models playing a role,” he explained in an interview with the 7 Figure Squad. “You don’t know who they are. You just saw them doing what they’re gifted and blessed to do for two hours of the day.”
“Could you imagine if the world got an opportunity to see you at your best for two hours a day. How your profile would just be enhanced?” Sanders continued. “Everything would be wonderful, and everything would be so different because we’re showing you for two hours doing what you’re gifted to do. We got to be careful who we’re calling role models.”
Whether it’s on the football field, on social media or simply at home with his family, Sanders continues to find his peace in the only one who can fulfill him: Jesus Christ.
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