Raiders QB Derek Carr credits his parents for teaching him that my faith was No. 1
August 14, 2022 | Nevada
Las Vegas Raiders quarterback Derek Carr praised his parents for teaching him to make his faith his first priority and said that, as a child, he wouldn’t play if a game fell on a Sunday.
“I was raised in the church. My grandpa was a pastor, my uncle was a pastor, my other grandpa was a deacon, my dad was a deacon, my mom’s a worship leader, my grandma is a pastor,” the quarterback told Tauren Wells in an interview on “The High Note” podcast.
Carr, who was born in California, said, “My mom and my dad, they taught me that my faith was number one.”
He added: “If there was a game on Sunday, as a kid, we always told my traveling coach, ‘I’m not gonna be there, I’m gonna be at church.’ They made the priorities, the priorities. And it worked out for me; I made it to the NFL. So all these moms and dads that say, ‘No, we have to go to your games at 8 years old,’ you know, ‘it’s OK to miss one.’”… (Excerpt from The Christian News)
