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.
BO JACKSONBy 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.
More Bo Jackson Quotes
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Don’t plan to repent at the 11th hour – you may die at 10:30.
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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 am my own person. What I’m doing, I’m happy with it. I’m doing what I want to.
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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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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 was always active – I went from baseball to football. I didn’t have time to work out.
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The first game was against Wake Forrest – I’ll never forget that game.
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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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If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.
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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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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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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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I was always the fastest and strongest kid in my school so events like the 100 meter and discus throwing attracted me.
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I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.
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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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