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.
BO JACKSONI’ve always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.
More Bo Jackson Quotes
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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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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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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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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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The first game was against Wake Forrest – I’ll never forget that game.
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When I was a kid, everybody in the neighborhood picked me to be the one in jail or be in the cemetery by the time I was 20.
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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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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 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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So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.
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If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.
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I was always active – I went from baseball to football. I didn’t have time to work out.
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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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Whenever I wasn’t watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.
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I could throw the discus for great distance s without the proper spin and throw technique.
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