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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.

Bo Jackson

If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.
BO JACKSON

College Sports Years
I was always active – I went from baseball to football. I didn’t have time to work out.
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Baseball Football Soccer
My favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog.
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Guy Sports Underdog
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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College School Sports
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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Morning Running Sports
I grew up in a tough neighborhood where a lot of kids were older than me.
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Kids Long Tough
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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Jail Kids Neighborhood
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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Age Kids Play
I always wanted to be a pilot.
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Always Pilots Wanted
The only people I know getting in high places by running their mouth are politicians.
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Mouths People Running
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.
BO JACKSON

Fans Fire Sports
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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Baseball Soccer Sports
So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.
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Letters Recruitment Track
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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Kids Myself Older Starting
My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.
BO JACKSON

Football Soccer Sports
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.
BO JACKSON

Running Thinking Wall

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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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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