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I took a lot of things for granted – especially how I treated my body.

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
So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.
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Baseball Sports Two
I grew up in a tough neighborhood where a lot of kids were older than me.
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Kids Long Tough
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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Football Giving Running
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
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
Just let me do what I’m doing, and then when all of this is up, then you can say how my career was.
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Careers Trying Two
My favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog.
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Guy Sports Underdog
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
So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.
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Letters Recruitment Track
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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Avid Kids Riders
Don’t run too fast through life. You only have one.
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Life Running Through
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
Don’t put off until tomorrow the loving words you can say today.
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Loving Today Tomorrow Words
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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Home Mom Play

I took a lot of things for granted – especially how I treated my body.

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