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It is better to give a lick than receive one.

Bo Jackson

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
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
Back when I was training, probably the only nutritious thing on the market was Gatorade-that’s all that we knew. 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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Appear Enhance People Running Sports
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 also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will – that’s just the bottom line.
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Basketball Soccer Sports
Don’t run too fast through life. You only have one.
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Life Running Through
It is better to give a lick than receive one.
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Better Giving Recieve
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
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
I am my own person. What I’m doing, I’m happy with it. I’m doing what I want to.
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Own Persons Want
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
It occurred to me in my junior year of high school. I got my first letter from a big college. I still have that letter to this day – a letter from Indiana.
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College Occur School Sports
I grew up in a tough neighborhood where a lot of kids were older than me.
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Kids Long Tough
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
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 struck out with two men on base. I was so angry, so frustrated, I turned and without even thinking about it, snapped my bat over my thigh.
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Baseball College Men

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