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.
BO JACKSONBut 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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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’ve always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.
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I was always active – I went from baseball to football. I didn’t have time to work out.
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Football is easy if you’re crazy as hell.
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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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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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So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.
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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 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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I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.
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Don’t run too fast through life. You only have one.
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Don’t plan to repent at the 11th hour – you may die at 10:30.
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So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.
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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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Whenever I wasn’t watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.
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