By doing that and being very competitive, the grown-ups started telling me even back before I started playing organized ball that I was too physical and too advanced for the kids my own age.
BO JACKSONI was always active – I went from baseball to football. I didn’t have time to work out.
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But now in this day and age, people are more prone to go out to try new things to enhance their performance on the field – to enhance their physical appearance.
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I was always active – I went from baseball to football. I didn’t have time to work out.
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I was always the fastest and strongest kid in my school so events like the 100 meter and discus throwing attracted me.
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The older kids decided to pick me on me starting when I was about 6 and it didn’t take me long to take a stand for myself.
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If my mother put on a helmet and shoulder pads and a uniform that wasn’t the same as the one I was wearing, I’d run over her if she was in my way. And I love my mother.
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Just let me do what I’m doing, and then when all of this is up, then you can say how my career was.
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I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will – that’s just the bottom line.
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My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.
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When I was a kid, everybody in the neighborhood picked me to be the one in jail or be in the cemetery by the time I was 20.
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I think everyone would love to see Jeff Gordon lose or get run into the wall, but I think he uses that – similar to me.
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I am my own person. What I’m doing, I’m happy with it. I’m doing what I want to.
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It is better to give a lick than receive one.
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The first game was against Wake Forrest – I’ll never forget that game.
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Whenever I wasn’t watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.
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I was the type of guy that used to get up in the morning and go out and just out run everybody on the field without stretching or warming up or anything.
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