Don’t run too fast through life. You only have one.
BO JACKSONBut 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 you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.
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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’ve always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.
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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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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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So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.
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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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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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So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.
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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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I grew up in a tough neighborhood where a lot of kids were older than me.
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I’m the type of person, I cross the bridges once I get to ’em. I don’t try to plan my life three, four months in advance, because you don’t know if tomorrow’s promised to you.
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I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.
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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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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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If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.
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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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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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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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It is better to give a lick than receive one.
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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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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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Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.
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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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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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Don’t put off until tomorrow the loving words you can say today.
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