Myron Rolle
Myron Rolle is an American football player turned pediatric neurosurgeon, born on October 30, 1986, in Houston, Texas.
Rolle attended St. Augustine College Preparatory School, the Hun School of Princeton, and the Peddie School before playing college football at Florida State University. His academic record earned him a Rhodes Scholarship, which took him to the University of Oxford. He then returned to pursue a medical degree at Florida State University College of Medicine. In 2010, while still navigating the overlap between his athletic and academic careers, he was selected by the Tennessee Titans in the sixth round of the NFL Draft. His path through professional football and medical school ran alongside each other in a way that kept both pursuits active at once. After his playing career, he completed a neurosurgery residency at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, then went on to a pediatric neurosurgery fellowship at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Rolle currently works as a pediatric neurosurgeon at Nemours Children's Hospital in Orlando, Florida. His career has moved across two demanding fields — competitive football at the college and professional levels, and the highly specialized discipline of pediatric neurosurgery — with each stage grounded in formal training at institutions including Florida State, Oxford, Harvard, and Johns Hopkins. The thread running through his biography is the combination of elite athletic competition and rigorous medical education, culminating in his current clinical work with pediatric patients in Florida.
Quotes by Myron Rolle
How can you see that the pressure is getting to me? I think you can see me pull back more from the community around me.
I think people align themselves with my way of thinking when they're talking to me. They try to create new avenues for me to pursue, so if you want to be a doctor and you have interest in human rights and philanthropy and social equality of medicine and disease, why don't you think about being surgeon general?
I have not had tragic incidences in my life that have rocked my personal being. The thing that really has been my biggest enemy in this world has been pressure. And people. People who I love. People who look at me differently. The pressure is tough, man. I'm not gonna lie. It's the hardest part. Easily.
Football has never left me. I still wake up in the morning and think of the operating room like a game, like it's showtime, let's perform.
My main mission in life is to help people and use my God-given ability to impact the world. If playing in the NFL gives me a platform to advocate for the issues that are important to me, then let's do it.
The Rhodes is something I've always really wanted. I would never have applied for it if I didn't really want to go. The opportunity to study at Oxford is amazing.
The first game I played against the University of Miami, I was very nervous - eyes wide open.
Seven years of neurosurgery is a big deal, something I wanted for a long time, really excited about it.
I'd love to play for the Philadelphia Eagles. I'm a South Jersey kid, and I was very excited when the Phillies won the World Series, and I'd like to stay home.