I was always active – I went from baseball to football. I didn’t have time to work out.
BO JACKSONI wanted to stay close enough so mom could see me play – where I could go home if I needed to.
More Bo Jackson Quotes
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I always wanted to be a pilot.
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So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.
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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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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 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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Football is easy if you’re crazy as hell.
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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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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 took a lot of things for granted – especially how I treated my body.
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I wanted to stay close enough so mom could see me play – where I could go home if I needed to.
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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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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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Don’t plan to repent at the 11th hour – you may die at 10:30.
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I’ve always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.
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So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.
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