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.
BO JACKSONThe only people I know getting in high places by running their mouth are politicians.
More Bo Jackson Quotes
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The first game was against Wake Forrest – I’ll never forget that game.
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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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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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I was always active – I went from baseball to football. I didn’t have time to work out.
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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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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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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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Football is easy if you’re crazy as hell.
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It is better to give a lick than receive one.
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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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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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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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If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.
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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 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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