It is better to give a lick than receive one.
BO JACKSONI 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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My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.
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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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So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.
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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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I always wanted to be a pilot.
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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 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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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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So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.
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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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I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.
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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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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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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 grew up in a tough neighborhood where a lot of kids were older than me.
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