8 Professional Athletes Turned Business Icons

2. Roger Thomas Staubach: Roger Thomas Staubach, the former Dallas Cowboy quarterback turned out to be a commercial real estate giant after his retiring from his football tenure. He led his team to win two world championship titles.

With the same winning spirit and confidence he started his own real estate firm The Staubach Company with only five employees. Later on this firm expanded exponentially and had witnessed to many successful deals under the leadership of Staubach.

He is also an executive chairman of Jones Lang LaSalle which is a professional real estate services and investment management company. The company is counted as one of the largest publicly traded commercial real estate firm in the world.

3. John Elway: An American football quarterback John Elway, who won two Super Bowl titles is a very intelligent entrepreneur too. After his retirement, he turned into a successful business tycoon involved in multiple business ventures like auto dealerships, running two Elway’s steakhouses and designing products for Bassett Furniture.

He is also a co-owner of the Arena Football League team. Besides these, he devotes his time fighting against child abuse working through Elway Foundation.

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