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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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Bo Jackson
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: November 30
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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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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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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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Really, it's not harder to train for them because once baseball starts you play everyday almost.
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Growing up as a kid, the back of my house faced a little community airport about four or five miles from my house.
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I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.
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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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Whenever I wasn't watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.
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Back before I injured my hip, I thought going to the gym was for wimps.
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My favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog.
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Football is easy if you're crazy as hell.
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If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.
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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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If I miss anything about the sport, it's the camaraderie of old teammates.
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Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.
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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. I could throw the discus for great distance s without the proper spin and throw technique.
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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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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 took a lot of things for granted - especially how I treated my body.
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