I always wanted to be a pilot.
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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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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You have a lot of people on the run and really don’t have time to sit down and eat a balanced meal.
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So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.
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I’ve always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.
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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 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 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.
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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.
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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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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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The first game was against Wake Forrest – I’ll never forget that game.
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Don’t run too fast through life. You only have one.
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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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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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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.
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