There's really no better time to reflect than when you're standing around in buff, just you and your memories. Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch got undressed and shared some important life lessons in the annual ESPN the Magazine Body Issue.
Life lessons from naked Marshawn Lynch
Beast Mode got undressed for ESPN the Magazine’s Body Issue and imparted some wisdom upon gazing readers.
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On being naked:
Even though I get butt-a-- naked, I’m still gonna let my body do the talking for me. I’m cool with my body, I love my body. I wouldn’t trade it for no other body.
Um, having seen the pictures, there’s really not much to be ashamed of, compared to your average sports writer at any rate.
His idyllic childhood:
It was a blast growing up in Oakland. We used to walk to house parties, play doorbell ditch, have rock fights, do front flips and backflips off concrete walls off and into the bushes. Take the boxing gloves out and box in the middle of the streets.
Lynch is “‘bout that action, boss,” so there’s no silly hashtagged life advice from him. His is far more practical, more familiar and harder to tweet.
To learn to do backflips and front flips, you had to fall and bump your head a couple times.
And here’s my favorite:
You never want to be the one who everyone is going to bust jokes on. The only way to prevent that is to be good at something.
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