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 JACKSONI grew up in a tough neighborhood where a lot of kids were older than me.
More Bo Jackson Quotes
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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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Don’t put off until tomorrow the loving words you can say today.
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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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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 am a firm believer in if you can’t get it the old fashioned way, you don’t need it.
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So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.
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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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Football is easy if you’re crazy as hell.
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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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My favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog.
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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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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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The only people I know getting in high places by running their mouth are politicians.
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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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