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 JACKSONThe 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.
More Bo Jackson Quotes
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Football is easy if you’re crazy as hell.
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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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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 could throw the discus for great distance s without the proper spin and throw technique.
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Back when I was training, probably the only nutritious thing on the market was Gatorade-that’s all that we knew. 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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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 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 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.
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My favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog.
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So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.
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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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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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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.
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