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.
BO JACKSONI’ve always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.
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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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Football is easy if you’re crazy as hell.
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It is better to give a lick than receive one. If anybody got in my way, I tried to run right through them.
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I grew up in a tough neighborhood where a lot of kids were older than me.
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I have been a fan all my life, but now I have been out of football for over 10 years, and out of baseball for a little over six years and I don’t go to games.
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I’ve always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.
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The only people I know getting in high places by running their mouth are politicians.
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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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If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.
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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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The way strength and conditioning has helped me now is that I make it a point to go to the gym everyday if I can.
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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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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 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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I guarantee you that’s what Jeff Gordon does. He uses everything the fans throw at him to stoke his fire and it drives him to be better at what he does.
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