Chicago Bears’ David Montgomery: ‘I Don’t Look to Give Any Validation To Anyone But God’
By Movieguide® Staff
The end of an NFL contract can be stressful for players, as pressure to perform and earn their spot on a team mounts with every game.
However, as Chicago Bears running back David Montgomery’s rookie contract ended, he focused his eyes on the God of peace.
“I really [haven’t] thought too much about that,” Montgomery said. “Honestly, like I said, I don’t look to give any validation to anyone but God.”
“I live my life. I’m on a spiritual journey right now for myself, and being sure that I just always focus, and keeping the main thing the main thing. That really is God, so I’m going to go out every day with the opportunity to be the best I can be. When it’s all said and done, God will take me and put me where I need to be,” he added.
Despite a dip in his performance in 2021 due to injury, Montgomery said that the prospect of becoming a father shifted his focus from the field to the Father.
“When you go through life and you have your journeys and you have your trials and you have your ups and your downs, when you don’t have anything to grasp onto or believe in, it becomes a lot harder and it creates unnecessary pressures. Up to this point in my life right now, that’s all I’ve done,” he explained. “… When you got God and you’re really relying on Him, the pressures that you thought you had? They just disappear, because you’re not doing it by yourself. And there’s nothing that I go out there and do [by] the willpower of myself. I understand that with God, I can do everything. But without God, I can do nothing.”
“It’s on the up and up now. I’m grateful and I’m blessed that God brought me here,” he added.
Now, as a veteran, Montgomery looks to help lead the Bears to a successful 2022 season.
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