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 JACKSONI’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.
More Bo Jackson Quotes
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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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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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Don’t put off until tomorrow the loving words you can say today.
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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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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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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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Whenever I wasn’t watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.
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I struck out with two men on base. I was so angry, so frustrated, I turned and without even thinking about it, snapped my bat over my thigh.
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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 was the type of guy that used to get up in the morning and go out and just out run everybody on the field without stretching or warming up or anything.
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If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.
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I guarantee you that’s what Jeff Gordon does. He uses everything the fans throw at him to stoke his fire and it drives him to be better at what he does.
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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.
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Just let me do what I’m doing, and then when all of this is up, then you can say how my career was.
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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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I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.
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It is better to give a lick than receive one.
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I took a lot of things for granted – especially how I treated my body.
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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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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.
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I am a firm believer in if you can’t get it the old fashioned way, you don’t need it.
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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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The only people I know getting in high places by running their mouth are politicians.
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I’ve always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.
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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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