"Pro football is my job, but I understand that," he told the
Philadelphia Daily News. "I am at peace, and no one can place a price on that. Society has set up this false picture of what happiness is: How big your bank account is, what kind of car you drive, who your friends are. Gee, happiness is none of that."
Barry Sanders was born July 16, 1968, in Wichita, Kansas. One of 11 children of William (Willie) and Shirley Sanders, Sanders learned early about hard work. His father owned his own roofing and carpentry company, and the three Sanders boys worked as his assistants as soon as they could handle tools. "All day long they would labor, with the hammers, tar, sweating in the hot summer sun," wrote Mitch Albom in the Detroit Free Press. "You did not complain in the Sanders family. Not unless you wanted a good whupping. Dad said 'Get in the car.' You got in the car. Dad said 'Get off that telephone and stop talking to girls.' You got off the telephone and stopped talking to girls.
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