I always wanted to be a pilot.
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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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 wanted to stay close enough so mom could see me play – where I could go home if I needed to.
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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 hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.
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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 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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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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It is better to give a lick than receive one.
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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 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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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 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 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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I took a lot of things for granted – especially how I treated my body.
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If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.
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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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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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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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I’ve always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.
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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 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 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 was always active – I went from baseball to football. I didn’t have time to work out.
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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 have always been an avid bike rider. Even before I became an avid bike rider, I was an avid bike stealer when I was a kid. I am very educated on bikes.
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