I took a lot of things for granted – especially how I treated my body.
BO JACKSONI 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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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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Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.
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My favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog.
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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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My confidence and drive to go play came when I realized how gifted I was at such a young age and how much bigger my build was than the kids my age.
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It occurred to me in my junior year of high school. I got my first letter from a big college. I still have that letter to this day – a letter from Indiana.
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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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I’ve always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.
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So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.
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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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Don’t put off until tomorrow the loving words you can say today.
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Don’t plan to repent at the 11th hour – you may die at 10:30.
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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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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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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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