10 Celebrities Who Were Successful Athletes Once Upon A Time

• 10:52 pm August 30, 2020
• suhas

There is so much about so many famous people that we have no clue at all. The people that we have in this list are super famous. You must have heard of them but even then, you wouldn't know that they were actually successful athletes once upon a time in their life!

Jason Statham

Before he became the famous actor we know today, Jason Statham spent much of his time playing sports. He played football for his school and was a great diver as well!

Stacy Keibler

She is a popular actress, model, singer etc but who can forget her successful stint with WWE? She is a retired professional wrestler.

Dwayne Johnson

Speaking of wrestlers, The Rock is a legend. But this is not where is athleticism began. Dwayne Johnson was a football player for the University of Miami’s football team and won a national championship in 1991. Wow!

Gina Carano

This pretty actress has been a part of plenty of successful movies till date. She is actually a former mixed martial artist and was trained in Muay Thai, took part in competitive MMA fighting, and was named fifth on 2008’s list of “Top 10 Influential Women.”

Tommy Lee Jones

In the late 1960s, Tommy Lee Jones played guard on the football team at Harvard College where he studied. This is not where his story ends. On November 23, 1968, he took part in the Yale vs Harvard football game that became part of sports history thanks to a last-moment comeback made by Harvard to end the game in a 29 to 29 tie. Legend!

Matthew Fox

This man played football at Columbia University where he studied economics. And if reports are to be believed, he is damn good at it!

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Dean Cain

We know him best for playing the role of Clark Kent, a.k.a. Superman, in the TV show, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, but Dean Cain is also a former football player. He would play that in his younger days!

Caitlyn Jenner

Back in the ’70s, Jenner had a very successful career as an athlete (when she identified as Bruce Jenner). Jenner started playing college football for the Graceland Yellowjackets and then switched to train for the decathlon. She has a rich past as an athlete!

Mark Harmon

Before his acting career, Mark Harmon played college football and was quite successful at it, playing for different teams. He's actually an award winning athlete! He received the NFF National Scholar-Athlete Award in 1973, the Second-team Academic All-America in 1973, and was introduced in the Pierce College Athletic Hall of Fame in 2010.

Chuck Norris

Surprise Surprise, Chuck is a world-famous martial artist. During his career, he won many martial arts championships and even created a discipline of his own called “Chun Kuk Do.” WoW!