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I grew up in a tough neighborhood where a lot of kids were older than me.

Bo Jackson

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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Home Mom Play
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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College Occur School Sports
If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.
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College Sports Years
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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Conditioning Day Every Way
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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Always Growing Play Up Years
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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Baseball Soccer Sports
I’ve always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.
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Children Kids Years
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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Avid Kids Riders
So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.
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Baseball Focused Sports
Whenever I wasn’t watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.
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Baseball Soccer Sports
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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Morning Running Sports
I always wanted to be a pilot.
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Always Pilots Wanted
I could throw the discus for great distance s without the proper spin and throw technique.
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Discuss Distance Technique Throw
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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People Running Sports
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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Own Persons Want
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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Insomnia Running Sports
Back when I was training, probably the only nutritious thing on the market was Gatorade-that’s all that we knew. But now in this day and age, people are more prone to go out to try new things to enhance their performance on the field-to enhance their physical appearance.
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Appear Enhance People Running Sports
I was always active – I went from baseball to football. I didn’t have time to work out.
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Baseball Football Soccer
My favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog.
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Guy Sports Underdog
It is better to give a lick than receive one.
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Better Giving Recieve
So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.
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Letters Recruitment Track
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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College School Sports
The first game was against Wake Forrest – I’ll never forget that game.
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Firsts Forget Games never
But now in this day and age, people are more prone to go out to try new things to enhance their performance on the field – to enhance their physical appearance.
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Appearance New Day People Sports
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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Careers Trying Two
I took a lot of things for granted – especially how I treated my body.
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Body Granted Treated
Don’t plan to repent at the 11th hour – you may die at 10:30.
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Hours May Repent

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