Deion Sanders, head football coach at the University of Colorado in Boulder, wrote an inspirational book last year. The book is called Elevate and Dominate: 21 Ways to Win On and Off the Field. In this book, it feels like Coach Prime is talking to you! That is something, as he is a great motivator. The book is a New York Times bestseller, and Deion Sanders, who spoke with Jerry Jones about the vacant Dallas Cowboys head coaching job yesterday, has been promoting it all over television. Deion Sanders is accomplished, and this article will cover some of his accomplishments in addition to the book. Which, by the way, will you read it?
Lessons from Elevate and Dominate
As stated above, the book Elevate and Dominate is inspirational. The book is organized around twenty-one lessons taught by Deion Sanders. He teaches directly from his days as a professional athlete and football coach. The book ends when the twenty-one lessons are exhausted. The book does detail Sanders’ brush with suicide and his health problems, but as he has stated, he just wanted to relate to readers. It would not be a shock if Elevate and Dominate were turned into a movie!
That everyday representation of himself works well, as the struggles make him seem like a normal human being despite his superhuman accomplishments. By the way, twenty-one is the number Sanders, known by the nickname Prime Time, wore in professional baseball and professional football. Deion Sanders played for several teams, including the New York Yankees and the Dallas Cowboys. His many accomplishments are the subject of the next section.
Deion Sanders Accomplishments
Deion Sanders is one of the most accomplished human beings ever to walk the face of the earth! In addition to being an author, Prime Time played both professional baseball and professional football after starring in both of those sports at Florida State University.In professional baseball, Deion Sanders played for the New York Yankees, who drafted him out of college. Some of his other sports career accomplishments include playing for the following:
- The Atlanta Braves
- The Cincinnati Reds
- The San Francisco Giants
- The Cincinnati Reds.
- The Atlanta Falcons
- The Dallas Cowboys
- The Washington Redskins
- The Baltimore Ravens
Sanders’ professional football career lasted from 1989 until 2005. He was a Super Bowl champion with Dallas and San Francisco. Another fun fact is that Sanders would often have games on the same day, and he was helicoptered between them. He was so successful as an athlete that the lessons he imparts in Elevate and Dominate carry great weight. There is no doubt about how much and how he writes comes from coaching. This has helped him refine his message to many!
The Lessons at Work
Sanders has had an equally unbelievable coaching career! To this point, he has coached college football and has been successful. He began his college football coaching career at Jackson University. That is a small, historically African-American college. What is noteworthy about that coaching stint is that the number one high school football player in the nation, Travis Hunter, followed him there.
Then, in 2023, Saunders became the head football coach at the University of Colorado! Even better yet, Hunter followed him there and won the Heisman Trophy this past December as the best college football player in the nation! Talk about amazing! Sanders is still at the University of Colorado, but on January 14, 2025, he spoke with the Dallas Cowboys owner about their vacant head coaching job.
Conclusion
One has to ask how Deion Sanders has been so successful! Only a handful of people have ever played two sports professionally! Heisman Trophy winners and five-star high school football recruits do not just attend historically African-American colleges or hail from the University of Colorado. Almost no one gets contacted about the most marquee head coaching job in the National Football League. Sanders must have a winning formula up his sleeve! It is a good thing he wrote it down in Elevate and Dominate, happy reading!
