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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Don’t put off until tomorrow the loving words you can say today.
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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 first game was against Wake Forrest – I’ll never forget that game.
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If my mother put on a helmet and shoulder pads and a uniform that wasn’t the same as the one I was wearing, I’d run over her if she was in my way. And I love my mother.
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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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So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.
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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 was always active – I went from baseball to football. I didn’t have time to work out.
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My favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog.
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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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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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I was always an Alabama fan growing up, but when the Alabama recruiter told me I would probably not be able to play until the end of my sophomore year, or the beginning of my junior year.
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I could throw the discus for great distance s without the proper spin and throw technique.
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So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.
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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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My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.
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I’ve always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.
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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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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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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 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’s all about the attitude, gut, heart and determination to go out and give 120% every time to try and help the team win.
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I always wanted to be a pilot.
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So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.
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Don’t run too fast through life. You only have one.
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