MILFORD MILL, Md. — “The cause why I moved again was as a result of I felt there was unfinished enterprise, and it had nothing to do with getting again on the sector. It had the whole lot to do with about how being in Baltimore made me really feel. I’ve at all times felt real love being right here.”
Although it has been over a decade years since Ray Rice final suited up within the NFL, he by no means actually left the sport.
Coaching youth football for a couple of years, Rice says his latest chapter contains guiding younger ninth graders at Milford Mill Academy.
“I’m a public faculty child. I went to public faculty in New Rochelle, New York, and I do know what the rhetoric is in public, and I need to assist form that narrative into one thing totally different,” mentioned Rice.
For him, this implies serving as a mentor and a number one determine. Something he needs he had as a excessive schooler.
“If any person would’ve acquired to me earlier than highschool, that is the place you actually need to make the distinction,” Rice mentioned.
As a person who has had his justifiable share of controversy, he understands experiences the perfect trainer for these youngsters.
“I’ve additionally developed this one quote, ‘life is greatest understood in reverse,’ so what I’m in a position to do now, in my very own world, is simply pour again in issues I went and glued in my very own world,” Rice mentioned.
