Chipper Jones Speaks to Emory Seniors

Future baseball Hall of Famer and former Atlanta Braves star Chipper Jones spoke to Emory University seniors last week.

The Thursday event was part of the lead-up to the university's Monday graduation ceremony. From a New York Times story about Jones' speech:

Jones added: “One of the ways to make people forgive you is stand up like a man, admit your mistakes and move forward. People are going to respect you a lot more when you own up to the mistakes you made.”

He said the rock-star-like lifestyle in his first few seasons “was awesome.” He followed with a serious postscript: “It came back to haunt me.”

Sounding on occasion much like a commencement speaker, he urged students to take their jobs seriously and, citing his charitable foundation, to give back to their communities.

The Monday commencement speech was given by Rita Dove, former poet laureate of the United States.

The school graduated 4,139 students on the university's quadrangle.