I’ve always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.
BO JACKSONIf 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.
More Bo Jackson Quotes
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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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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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My favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog.
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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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Whenever I wasn’t watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.
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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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My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.
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Football is easy if you’re crazy as hell.
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I always wanted to be a pilot.
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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 am a firm believer in if you can’t get it the old fashioned way, you don’t need it.
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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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So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.
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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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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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Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.
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I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.
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I grew up in a tough neighborhood where a lot of kids were older than me.
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But now, I get up every morning and go to the gym because I don’t like waking up stiff or in pain and wondering if my hip is going to hurt me.
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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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So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.
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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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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 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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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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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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