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I have no problem with my hips - I can still do the things that I used to do. I can run, I'm just not the fastest person on the field anymore.

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Bo Jackson
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: November 30
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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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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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If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.
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Back before I injured my hip, I thought going to the gym was for wimps.
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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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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 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. The bat split right in half. Afterward, reporters asked me if it was the first time I'd ever broken a bat over my thigh. I broke an aluminum bat over my knee in college, I said. (I was just kidding).
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I've always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.
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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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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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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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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've taken up golf in the past five or six years, and most of the time there aren't too many people out there that can drive a ball further than 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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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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Football is easy if you're crazy as hell.
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You practice Monday through Friday in college, or Monday through Saturday in the pro's - and then you just go out and knock somebody's head off.
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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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I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.
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I was the type of guy that used to get up in the morning and go out and just out run everybody on the field without stretching or warming up or anything.
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