

He began reading his Bible and seeking guidance from mentors such as Bishop T.D. I’m not going to sit here and argue about who is what, and what is what, I’m just going to say it works for me.”

People argue about what faith is, and who Jesus is, but it works for me. I wouldn’t be where I am today without my faith. “I had to get a lot of Word in so that I could fight off the enemy. “Slowly, but surely, I had to deal with my faith, deal with my strength,” Sanders said. “I finally just got on my knees and gave it all to the Lord,” Sanders said. Amazingly, he survived what he said was a 30- to 40-foot drop without any significant injuries. Sanders recounted the suicide attempt in his autobiography Power, Money & Sex: How Success Almost Ruined My Life. Losing hope with the progression of everything.” I was pretty much running on fumes,” he said.

“I was going through the trials and tribulations of life. His marriage to his first wife Carolyn Chambers and mother of his two oldest children (Deion Jr. Yet in 1997 at the prime of it all, he drove his car off a cliff, ready to die. He’d become a father, made a lot of money, even released an album. He had won two Super Bowls and appeared in a World Series. A look at the intersection of sports, faith and religion
