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.
BO JACKSONI 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.
More Bo Jackson Quotes
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I’ve always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.
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Don’t plan to repent at the 11th hour – you may die at 10:30.
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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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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.
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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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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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So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.
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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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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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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 am my own person. What I’m doing, I’m happy with it. I’m doing what I want to.
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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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Don’t put off until tomorrow the loving words you can say today.
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If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.
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