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.
BO JACKSONI grew up in a tough neighborhood where a lot of kids were older than me.
More Bo Jackson Quotes
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It is better to give a lick than receive one. If anybody got in my way, I tried to run right through them.
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My favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog.
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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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I taught myself how to pole vault in one day. The next day I entered a meet to pole vault and won it all for the state of Alabama.
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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 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.
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It occurred to me in my junior year of high school. I got my first letter from a big college. I still have that letter to this day – a letter from Indiana.
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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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I took a lot of things for granted – especially how I treated my body.
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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.
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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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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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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 think everyone would love to see Jeff Gordon lose or get run into the wall, but I think he uses that – similar to me.
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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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