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 was always active – I went from baseball to football. I didn’t have time to work out.
More Bo Jackson Quotes
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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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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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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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When I was a kid, everybody in the neighborhood picked me to be the one in jail or be in the cemetery by the time I was 20.
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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 also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will – that’s just the bottom line.
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I always wanted to be a pilot.
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I have always been an avid bike rider. Even before I became an avid bike rider, I was an avid bike stealer when I was a kid. I am very educated on bikes.
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Football is easy if you’re crazy as hell.
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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.
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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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I was a pitcher, shortstop and outfielder, and the Yankees tried to sign me out of high school as a first-round draft pick in 1981. I turned them down to go to college.
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So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.
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I’ll never worry about not being successful. I’ll just take it one day at a time, one season at a time. And play as hard as I can.
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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 took a lot of things for granted – especially how I treated my body.
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I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.
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Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.
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I could throw the discus for great distance s without the proper spin and throw technique.
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The older kids decided to pick me on me starting when I was about 6 and it didn’t take me long to take a stand for myself.
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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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It’s all about the attitude, gut, heart and determination to go out and give 120% every time to try and help the team win.
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The first game was against Wake Forrest – I’ll never forget that game.
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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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If you have four years to complete your college education, do 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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