Most pro athletes would be lying if they told you they had never dreamed of having a career change to pursue being a pop singer or guitar wielding rock star.
Here are some occasions when sports stars made the leap, sometimes landing on their face and other times somehow faking it till they made it.
Caroline Wozniacki
For a while, Caroline Wozniacki was world tennis number one, and further boosted her profile by hooking up with Rory McIlroy.
The world was at her feet, anything seemed possible, and unfortunately that meant she felt confident enough to release an EDM track called Oxygen. The result was tantamount to a court violation.
Jacques Villeneuve
Whether he was on the F1 track or the NASCAR ring, Jacques Villeneuve was a man you could rely on to deliver if you used a sports free bet to back him to win a race.
Unfortunately, if you showed the same level of trust in his music career then you will have been bitterly disappointed. Private Paradise was the song he thought would launch him to the top of the charts, but instead it was five torturous minutes of bilge.
Shaquille O’Neal
Even if big Shaq had made a complete hash of his rap career, it would have been a brave man or woman to tell him to put the mic down.
Luckily, though, the basketball star had a talent for spitting bars and went on to release three well-received albums.
Clint Dempsey
A rap track all about soccer is the kind of pitch that record labels must resign to the scrap heap on a daily basis, but things are a little different when the man doing the pitching is US national team star Clint Dempsey.
It also helped that Dempsey actually has some flow, although we are not sure about his rap pseudonym, Deuce. Surely that is what Wozniacki should have used!
Manny Pacquiáo
There is a long and rich history of boxers trying their hand at singing, with Roy Jones Jr. and Oscar De La Hoya both recording cringe worthy tracks.
However, Filipino legend Manny Pacquiáo really takes the biscuit with his tone-deaf wailing, that has been assaulting airwaves since 2011.