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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.

Bo Jackson

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.
BO JACKSON

Conditioning Day Every Way
If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.
BO JACKSON

College Sports Years
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.
BO JACKSON

Age Balls Kids
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 JACKSON

Jail Kids Neighborhood
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.
BO JACKSON

Baseball Soccer Sports
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.
BO JACKSON

Basketball Play Successful
The first game was against Wake Forrest – I’ll never forget that game.
BO JACKSON

Firsts Forget Games never
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.
BO JACKSON

Hurt Morning Pain
I was a pitcher, shortstop and outfielder, and the Yankees tried to sign me out of high school as a first-round draft pick in 1981. I turned them down to go to college.
BO JACKSON

College School Sports
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.
BO JACKSON

Insomnia Running Sports
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.
BO JACKSON

Kids Myself Older Starting
It is better to give a lick than receive one. If anybody got in my way, I tried to run right through them.
BO JACKSON

Football Giving Running
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.
BO JACKSON

Age Kids Play
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.
BO JACKSON

Basketball Soccer Sports
So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.
BO JACKSON

Baseball Focused Sports
I wanted to stay close enough so mom could see me play – where I could go home if I needed to.
BO JACKSON

Home Mom Play

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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