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 always wanted to be a pilot.
More Bo Jackson Quotes
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Don’t put off until tomorrow the loving words you can say today.
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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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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 is better to give a lick than receive one.
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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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By 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.
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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 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 first game was against Wake Forrest – I’ll never forget that game.
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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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So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.
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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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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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Don’t run too fast through life. You only have one.
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My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.
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I could throw the discus for great distance s without the proper spin and throw technique.
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I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.
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I always wanted to be a pilot.
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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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I took a lot of things for granted – especially how I treated my body.
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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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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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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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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 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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