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.
BO JACKSONIt 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.
More Bo Jackson Quotes
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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 took a lot of things for granted – especially how I treated my body.
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I think everyone would love to see Jeff Gordon lose or get run into the wall, but I think he uses that – similar to me.
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I always wanted to be a pilot.
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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 wanted to stay close enough so mom could see me play – where I could go home if I needed to.
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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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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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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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I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.
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Football is easy if you’re crazy as hell.
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I’ve always played with kids that were five, six, seven years 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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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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