I wanted to stay close enough so mom could see me play – where I could go home if I needed to.
BO JACKSONI took a lot of things for granted – especially how I treated my body.
More Bo Jackson Quotes
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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’m the type of person, I cross the bridges once I get to ’em. I don’t try to plan my life three, four months in advance, because you don’t know if tomorrow’s promised to you.
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The only people I know getting in high places by running their mouth are politicians.
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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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I was always active – I went from baseball to football. I didn’t have time to work out.
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Don’t plan to repent at the 11th hour – you may die at 10:30.
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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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It is better to give a lick than receive one.
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I’ll never worry about not being successful. I’ll just take it one day at a time, one season at a time. And play as hard as I can.
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The only thing I would change is during the summer – when I was working my summer job, if I was smart, I would have taken flying lessons at Auburn.
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So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.
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Don’t run too fast through life. You only have one.
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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 hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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Don’t put off until tomorrow the loving words you can say today.
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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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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 could throw the discus for great distance s without the proper spin and throw technique.
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Football is easy if you’re crazy as hell.
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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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