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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.

Bo Jackson

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
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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Distance Kids School
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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Basketball Soccer Sports
I’ll never worry about not being successful. I’ll just take it one day at a time, one season at a time. And play as hard as I can.
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Basketball Play Successful
When I was a kid, everybody in the neighborhood picked me to be the one in jail or be in the cemetery by the time I was 20.
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Jail Kids Neighborhood
Don’t run too fast through life. You only have one.
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Life Running Through
I think everyone would love to see Jeff Gordon lose or get run into the wall, but I think he uses that – similar to me.
BO JACKSON

Running Thinking Wall
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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Jobs Smart Summer
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
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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Hurt Morning Pain
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
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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Needs Sports Way
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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Day Myself Next Taught
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
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.
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Kids Myself Older Starting
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

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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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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