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Offline JSD

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What would you do differently?
The only color that matters is GREEN

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I hate this game..I play it every time I drive past a high school football practice.

"You've gotta respect a 15-percent 3-point shooter. A guy
like that is always lethal." - Evan 'The God' Turner

Offline JSD

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10 years ago I was 15 years old.

- Taken High School more seriously.
- Got in better shape at a younger age.
- I would not have spent 3 years of my life with my high school sweetheart who ended up screwing me over.
- Saved more money.
- Hung out with a more productive crowd
- Shut my mouth more and opened my ears
- Listened to my father and mother more
- Walked away from physical confrontation (as appose to looking for it)
- Never smoked a butt (I quit a while ago anyway but after a few years)



More coming...
The only color that matters is GREEN

Offline JSD

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I hate this game..I play it every time I drive past a high school football practice.

What do you think about?
The only color that matters is GREEN

Offline indeedproceed

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I hate this game..I play it every time I drive past a high school football practice.

What do you think about?

I was recruited from high school to play football, my junior year I was second on my team in tackles as a defensive tackle.

I didn't even know what offseason training was.

Beyond that, I also wish I would've learned to box.

"You've gotta respect a 15-percent 3-point shooter. A guy
like that is always lethal." - Evan 'The God' Turner

Offline JSD

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I hate this game..I play it every time I drive past a high school football practice.

What do you think about?

I was recruited from high school to play football, my junior year I was second on my team in tackles as a defensive tackle.

I didn't even know what offseason training was.

Beyond that, I also wish I would've learned to box.

Right on, you're only 25 you can still learn to box.
The only color that matters is GREEN

Offline indeedproceed

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I hate this game..I play it every time I drive past a high school football practice.

What do you think about?

I was recruited from high school to play football, my junior year I was second on my team in tackles as a defensive tackle.

I didn't even know what offseason training was.

Beyond that, I also wish I would've learned to box.

Right on, you're only 25 You can still learn to box.

Trying...I began working a heavy bag into my workout schedule, twice a week

I wish tho that I had someone there to watch me, to tell me if I'm doing it completely wrong (I understand you punch the bag, I mean the subtleties)

"You've gotta respect a 15-percent 3-point shooter. A guy
like that is always lethal." - Evan 'The God' Turner

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Learn at an earlier age to stop worrying so much about what other people think of me, and start worrying more about what I think of myself (positive self image)

Avoid negative people whenever possible.  Spend time with positive people whenever possible.

Challenge my teachers to challenge me more.

Take playing music more seriously.

Yup

Offline The4Time2Doctor0

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Hope to avoid tearing ACL through strength training.

Offline SaCaCh

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Without a doubt I would have started singing earlier.

Offline dark_lord

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i can honestly say, i wouldnt change anything.  im very happy with all aspects of my life.

however, i wish i made better financial decisions when i was in my early 20's.

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« Last Edit: August 28, 2009, 12:43:44 PM by IndeedProceed »
Still don't believe in Joe.

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Not date the same chick in college for four plus years

Start learning languages more agressively at a younger age.

Work a little harder with my free time. When I was young and unmarried I should have done a little more somehow. A couple nights a week earning afew more bucks or something or take a class in some sort of tradeswork

Not overuse PEDS in the weightroom (nothing really bad, but when you mix a caffein pill with a red bull before an evening workout that has consequences that you may not realize when you're in your 20s and think you're indestructable)

Try more kinds of beer and wine

Get into comic books and reading

Maaaayyybbee try to learn an instrument

Vote in the infamous Bush/Gore election. I was too lazy to get properly registered that year.

I interpreted the question as putting myself back in time ten years. If I'm allowed to have back a specific ten years then some of the questions change. I wish I could have learned fencing before high school for example


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If I knew everything I know now ten years ago, I would embark on a storied ten-year career as the world's greatest sports bettor.

Didn't you see Back to the Future 2?
"The worst thing that ever happened in sports was sports radio, and the internet is sports radio on steroids with lower IQs.” -- Brian Burke, former Toronto Maple Leafs senior adviser, at the 2013 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference