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.
BO JACKSONBut 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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Whenever I wasn’t watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.
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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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The only people I know getting in high places by running their mouth are politicians.
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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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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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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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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 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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It is better to give a lick than receive one.
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You have a lot of people on the run and really don’t have time to sit down and eat a balanced meal.
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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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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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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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It’s all about the attitude, gut, heart and determination to go out and give 120% every time to try and help the team win.
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I was a pitcher, shortstop and outfielder, and the Yankees tried to sign me out of high school as a first-round draft pick in 1981. I turned them down to go to college.
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