My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.
BO JACKSONIt’s all about the attitude, gut, heart and determination to go out and give 120% every time to try and help the team win.
More Bo Jackson Quotes
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I took a lot of things for granted – especially how I treated my body.
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I taught myself how to pole vault in one day. The next day I entered a meet to pole vault and won it all for the state of Alabama.
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I could throw the discus for great distance s without the proper spin and throw technique.
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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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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 grew up in a tough neighborhood where a lot of kids were older than 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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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 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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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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Whenever I wasn’t watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.
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So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.
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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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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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Don’t run too fast through life. You only have one.
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