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.
BO JACKSONI 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.
More Bo Jackson Quotes
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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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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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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 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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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 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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It is better to give a lick than receive one.
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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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Don’t plan to repent at the 11th hour – you may die at 10:30.
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So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.
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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 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 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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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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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 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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My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.
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Football is easy if you’re crazy as hell.
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If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.
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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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The first game was against Wake Forrest – I’ll never forget that game.
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Don’t run too fast through life. You only have one.
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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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The only people I know getting in high places by running their mouth are politicians.
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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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