I wanted to stay close enough so mom could see me play – where I could go home if I needed to.
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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Don’t put off until tomorrow the loving words you can say today.
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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 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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It’s all about the attitude, gut, heart and determination to go out and give 120% every time to try and help the team win.
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So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.
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My favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog.
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Don’t plan to repent at the 11th hour – you may die at 10:30.
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I took a lot of things for granted – especially how I treated my body.
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I am my own person. What I’m doing, I’m happy with it. I’m doing what I want to.
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Football is easy if you’re crazy as hell.
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If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.
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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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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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The only people I know getting in high places by running their mouth are politicians.
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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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I have been a fan all my life, but now I have been out of football for over 10 years, and out of baseball for a little over six years and I don’t go to games.
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I could throw the discus for great distance s without the proper spin and throw technique.
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So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.
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I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.
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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 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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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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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 guarantee you that’s what Jeff Gordon does. He uses everything the fans throw at him to stoke his fire and it drives him to be better at what he does.
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Don’t run too fast through life. You only have one.
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