Whenever I wasn’t watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.
BO JACKSONThe 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.
More Bo Jackson Quotes
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I grew up in a tough neighborhood where a lot of kids were older than me.
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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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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 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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So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.
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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 hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.
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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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Don’t run too fast through life. You only have one.
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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 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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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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My confidence and drive to go play came when I realized how gifted I was at such a young age and how much bigger my build was than the kids my age.
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My favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog.
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