I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.
BO JACKSONThe only people I know getting in high places by running their mouth are politicians.
More Bo Jackson Quotes
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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 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. If anybody got in my way, I tried to run right through them.
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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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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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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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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 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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Football is easy if you’re crazy as hell.
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If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.
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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 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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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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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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Don’t plan to repent at the 11th hour – you may die at 10:30.
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