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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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Bo Jackson
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: November 30
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Bessemer
Alabama
Vincent Edward Jackson
Vincent Edward Bo Jackson
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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 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'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 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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I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.
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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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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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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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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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I've always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.
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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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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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Don't plan to repent at the 11th hour - you may die at 10:30.
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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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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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My sophomore year I placed 2nd, and my junior and senior year - I got smart and piled up enough points between myself and second place where I didn't have to run the mile.
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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 love going out and doing new things.
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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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If I miss anything about the sport, it's the camaraderie of old teammates.
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