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.
BO JACKSONI’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.
More Bo Jackson Quotes
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I always wanted to be a pilot.
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Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.
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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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Whenever I wasn’t watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.
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Back 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.
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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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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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The only thing I would change is during the summer – when I was working my summer job, if I was smart, I would have taken flying lessons at Auburn.
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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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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 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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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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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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