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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.

Bo Jackson

I grew up in a tough neighborhood where a lot of kids were older than me.
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Kids Long Tough
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
The first game was against Wake Forrest – I’ll never forget that game.
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Firsts Forget Games never
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
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 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
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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Age Balls Kids
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 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’ve always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.
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Children Kids Years
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
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
So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.
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Letters Recruitment Track
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
I took a lot of things for granted – especially how I treated my body.
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Body Granted Treated
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

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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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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