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By doing that and being very competitive, the grown-ups started telling me even back before I started playing organized ball that I was too physical and too advanced for the kids my own age.

Bo Jackson

I always wanted to be a pilot.
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Always Pilots Wanted
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
So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.
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Baseball Focused 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 am my own person. What I’m doing, I’m happy with it. I’m doing what I want to.
BO JACKSON

Own Persons Want
Just let me do what I’m doing, and then when all of this is up, then you can say how my career was.
BO JACKSON

Careers Trying Two
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 grew up in a tough neighborhood where a lot of kids were older than me.
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Kids Long Tough
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 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
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
The only people I know getting in high places by running their mouth are politicians.
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Mouths People Running
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 took a lot of things for granted – especially how I treated my body.
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Body Granted Treated
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 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.
BO JACKSON

Day Myself Next Taught

By doing that and being very competitive, the grown-ups started telling me even back before I started playing organized ball that I was too physical and too advanced for the kids my own age.

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By doing that and being very competitive, the grown-ups started telling me even back before I started playing organized ball that I was too physical and too advanced for the kids my own age.

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