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.
BO JACKSONSo you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.
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I have no problem with my hips – I can still do the things that I used to do. I can run, I’m just not the fastest person on the field anymore.
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I taught myself how to pole vault in one day. The next day I entered a meet to pole vault and won it all for the state of Alabama.
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Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.
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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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Don’t plan to repent at the 11th hour – you may die at 10:30.
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So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.
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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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Football is easy if you’re crazy as hell.
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I struck out with two men on base. I was so angry, so frustrated, I turned and without even thinking about it, snapped my bat over my thigh.
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But now, I get up every morning and go to the gym because I don’t like waking up stiff or in pain and wondering if my hip is going to hurt me.
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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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I always wanted to be a pilot.
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Don’t put off until tomorrow the loving words you can say today.
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The only thing I would change is during the summer – when I was working my summer job, if I was smart, I would have taken flying lessons at Auburn.
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I’ve always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.
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