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.
BO JACKSONWhenever I wasn’t watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.
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 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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I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.
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So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.
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Don’t plan to repent at the 11th hour – you may die at 10:30.
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You have a lot of people on the run and really don’t have time to sit down and eat a balanced meal.
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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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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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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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Whenever I wasn’t watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.
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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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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 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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