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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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Bo Jackson
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: November 30
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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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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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Back before I injured my hip, I thought going to the gym was for wimps.
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I've always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.
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Just let me do what I'm doing, and then when all of this is up, then you can say how my career was. Don't try to sum up my career in one or two seasons. Let me finish it first.
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I guarantee you that's what Jeff Gordon does. He uses everything the fans throw at him to stoke his fire and it drives him to be better at what he does.
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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 took a lot of things for granted - especially how I treated my body.
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Don't plan to repent at the 11th hour - you may die at 10:30.
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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 sell yourself short because without that you can't go far in life because after sports the only thing you know is sports and you can't do anything else with that.
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Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.
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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 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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Well, back when I was training, probably the only nutritious thing on the market was Gatorade - that's all that we knew.
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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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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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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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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 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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