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.
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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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 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 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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The only thing I would change is during the summer – when I was working my summer job, if I was smart, I would have taken flying lessons at Auburn.
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Don’t run too fast through life. You only have one.
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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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So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.
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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 grew up in a tough neighborhood where a lot of kids were older than me.
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Don’t plan to repent at the 11th hour – you may die at 10:30.
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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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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’ve always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.
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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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