You have a lot of people on the run and really don’t have time to sit down and eat a balanced meal.
BO JACKSONWhen 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.
More Bo Jackson Quotes
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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 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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My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.
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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 hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.
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The first game was against Wake Forrest – I’ll never forget that game.
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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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So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.
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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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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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I took a lot of things for granted – especially how I treated my body.
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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 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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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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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 active – I went from baseball to football. I didn’t have time to work out.
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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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So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.
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I wanted to stay close enough so mom could see me play – where I could go home if I needed to.
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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 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 always wanted to be a pilot.
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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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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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Football is easy if you’re crazy as hell.
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The only people I know getting in high places by running their mouth are politicians.
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