The cost of ambition- Would you trade places with Salvador Sanchez?

Better to be a live sheep than a dead tiger.

 

No because that's my age now, and it would be a scary thought to think, I would be gone from this world now without truly living my life.

I also don't like boxing regarding me actually competing in it, I tried it when I was a young kid and whilst I liked the training aspect of it. Honestly I didn't like getting hit, and i'm not the kind of person that would be able to get hit for a living. So even if I was given Salvador Sanchez's boxing skills I wouldn't enjoy it.

So overall no definitely not.

 

Disagree

We all have to die at some point, but its better to have done something with that life

 

Well I am in my 40s now, so if I swap places with Sanchez, then I have been dead a long time.

 

I wouldn’t trade it for fame alone. A lot of people would want to be remembered so fondly by millions of people but dying at such a young age is still a tragedy and time is far too precious to die so early. I am content with what I have now and quite frankly very happy where I’m at.

 

No

 

As much as I love watching footage of Sanchez and all of his brilliance I wouldn't want to die at 23 regardless of being remembered in History books or not. 23 is so young and I'll take my role as a husband and father anyday over being remembered as an atg. Poor guy had so much more life to live in and out of the ring.

 

No, I wouldn't trade places. I'm damn near 60. I have almost 40 yrs of living , loving, and experience than Sanchez who died at only 23. If I was a billionaire but only for 23 yrs and died I wouldn't want that either. Much less a boxer.

 

Sure, why not?

 

Would I rather be a 120-pound grown man, with a bad afro, a smashed nose, who grew up in poverty, who made about $100,000 a year for a couple years, before dying a painful, horrible death in a wrecked, crappy, plastic 80s sports car?

No. Doesn't sound the slightest bit appealing.

Life is good. And if you haven't peaked by 23, good for you.

It's always better to peak late rather than peaking early. You appreciate success and life more.

 

I suppose the answers here will lie largely along generartional lines. The younger ones will often lobby for the Neil Young-ism "better to burn out than to fade away."

Once upon a time I probably thought along those same lines. Never to outright fantasize about dying young, never that. The possibilities of what else might be out there were too intriguing to entertain that notion. But there is something cinematic about the idea of potential stolen away by tragedy. Makes for better copy than "Oh, he did his thing and then got old and stays at home a lot now to complain about the government."

Being older now and married with three young kids, I feel the need to be there for them, at least to get them all to adulthood before I check out. It's a Natural Order thing, I think.

I look at it this way; given the choice, what would Sanchez have said he'd rather do? My guess is he'd prefer to live out a more mundane existence into old age than be the shooting star he turned out to be, perhaps better frozen in time by virtue of his own demise.

 

Sanchez died in a car crash. What the hell has that got to do with ambition?