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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

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
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.
BO JACKSON

College Occur School Sports
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
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 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.
BO JACKSON

Avid Kids Riders
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
So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.
BO JACKSON

Baseball Focused Sports
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.
BO JACKSON

Running Thinking Wall
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.
BO JACKSON

Appearance New Day People Sports
Just let me do what I’m doing, and then when all of this is up, then you can say how my career was.
BO JACKSON

Careers Trying Two
I was always the fastest and strongest kid in my school so events like the 100 meter and discus throwing attracted me.
BO JACKSON

Distance Kids School
I was always active – I went from baseball to football. I didn’t have time to work out.
BO JACKSON

Baseball Football Soccer
It is better to give a lick than receive one.
BO JACKSON

Better Giving Recieve
Don’t plan to repent at the 11th hour – you may die at 10:30.
BO JACKSON

Hours May Repent
I always wanted to be a pilot.
BO JACKSON

Always Pilots Wanted
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.
BO JACKSON

Day Myself Next Taught

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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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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