Don’t run too fast through life. You only have one.
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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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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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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I was always active – I went from baseball to football. I didn’t have time to work out.
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The only people I know getting in high places by running their mouth are politicians.
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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 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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So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.
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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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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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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.
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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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I took a lot of things for granted – especially how I treated my body.
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Back when I was training, probably the only nutritious thing on the market was Gatorade-that’s all that we knew. 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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