I grew up in a tough neighborhood where a lot of kids were older than me.
BO JACKSONThe 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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Football is easy if you’re crazy as hell.
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Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.
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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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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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My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.
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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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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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Don’t run too fast through life. You only have one.
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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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I’ve always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.
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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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Don’t put off until tomorrow the loving words you can say today.
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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 guarantee you that’s what Jeff Gordon does. He uses everything the fans throw at him to stoke his fire and it drives him to be better at what he does.
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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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