I wanted to stay close enough so mom could see me play – where I could go home if I needed to.
BO JACKSONI am a firm believer in if you can’t get it the old fashioned way, you don’t need it.
More Bo Jackson Quotes
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Don’t run too fast through life. You only have one.
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Don’t put off until tomorrow the loving words you can say today.
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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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I grew up in a tough neighborhood where a lot of kids were older than me.
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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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So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.
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So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.
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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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My favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog.
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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 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 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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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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I think everyone would love to see Jeff Gordon lose or get run into the wall, but I think he uses that – similar to me.
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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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