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.
BO JACKSONSo, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.
More Bo Jackson Quotes
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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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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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It is better to give a lick than receive one.
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Don’t plan to repent at the 11th hour – you may die at 10:30.
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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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I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.
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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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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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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.
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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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So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.
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If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.
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I am a firm believer in if you can’t get it the old fashioned way, you don’t need it.
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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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Don’t run too fast through life. You only have one.
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