I grew up in a tough neighborhood where a lot of kids were older than me.
BO JACKSONI was always an Alabama fan growing up, but when the Alabama recruiter told me I would probably not be able to play until the end of my sophomore year, or the beginning of my junior year.
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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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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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Football is easy if you’re crazy as hell.
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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 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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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 always wanted to be a pilot.
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I am a firm believer in if you can’t get it the old fashioned way, you don’t need it.
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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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Whenever I wasn’t watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.
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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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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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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 was always an Alabama fan growing up, but when the Alabama recruiter told me I would probably not be able to play until the end of my sophomore year, or the beginning of my junior year.
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I’ve always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.
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