During this offseaon, the Detroit Lions decided to release veteran safety Glover Quin, and instead of waiting for his next destination, he decided to walk away from the game and retire.
“Playing professional sports was always a dream of mine. Football was the route I chose and God blessed me to be able to persevere through all the hardships and play 10 years in the NFL,” Quin said. “I’m so thankful for the opportunity I had to play in the NFL with such great players and two great organizations.
“Football was never who I was as a person. It was always what I had done. I wanted to use football as a stepping stone into the rest of my life and not let football be my life. I always only wanted to play 10 years. Said if I was able to walk off the field after the last game in Year 10, it would be really hard for me to walk back on. I’m young, I’m healthy and I got a lot of life to live. So I’m walking away from the game of football.”
He definitely doesn’t need to find a job like most other players, because he saved enough money to get him through.
The 33-year-old told told Peter King for this week’s Football Morning in America that he has saved 70 percent of his after-tax income. According to Spotrac, Quin made $33,337,838 during his 10 seasons in the National Football League.
“That was all a part of the plan,” Quin said. “I never had a Bentley. I never had a Maserati. My wife and I lived well. We just didn’t live extravagantly. My attitude was, if you sacrifice a little bit in your twenties, you can live great for the rest of your life. And by doing that, I could walk away without thinking right now, ‘I gotta play one more year because I really need that extra $2 million.’”
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Quin spent the first four seasons of his career with the Texans before signing with the Lions in 2013.
