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.
BO JACKSONI 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.
More Bo Jackson Quotes
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So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.
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I guarantee you that’s what Jeff Gordon does. He uses everything the fans throw at him to stoke his fire and it drives him to be better at what he does.
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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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My favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog.
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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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I was always active – I went from baseball to football. I didn’t have time to work out.
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It is better to give a lick than receive one.
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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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So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.
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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 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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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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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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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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Don’t plan to repent at the 11th hour – you may die at 10:30.
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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 am my own person. What I’m doing, I’m happy with it. I’m doing what I want to.
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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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The only people I know getting in high places by running their mouth are politicians.
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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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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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I could throw the discus for great distance s without the proper spin and throw technique.
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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 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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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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So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.
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