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I always wanted to be a pilot.

Bo Jackson

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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Age Kids Play
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 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 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 hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.
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Blow Hate People
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 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
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
I always wanted to be a pilot.
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Always Pilots Wanted
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
Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.
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Inspirational Motivational Sports
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
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 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
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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Football Motivational Soccer
I could throw the discus for great distance s without the proper spin and throw technique.
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Discuss Distance Technique Throw
If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.
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College Sports Years
It is better to give a lick than receive one.
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Better Giving Recieve
The only people I know getting in high places by running their mouth are politicians.
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Mouths People Running
Don’t put off until tomorrow the loving words you can say today.
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Loving Today Tomorrow Words
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.
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Running Thinking Wall
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 took a lot of things for granted – especially how I treated my body.
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Body Granted Treated
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 workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.
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Football Soccer Sports
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

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