My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.
BO JACKSONBack 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.
More Bo Jackson Quotes
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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 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 am a firm believer in if you can’t get it the old fashioned way, you don’t need it.
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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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The first game was against Wake Forrest – I’ll never forget that game.
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Don’t put off until tomorrow the loving words you can say today.
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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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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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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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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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Don’t plan to repent at the 11th hour – you may die at 10:30.
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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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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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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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