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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

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.
BO JACKSON

Kids Myself Older Starting
I took a lot of things for granted – especially how I treated my body.
BO JACKSON

Body Granted Treated
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.
BO JACKSON

College School Sports
I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.
BO JACKSON

Blow Hate People
It is better to give a lick than receive one. If anybody got in my way, I tried to run right through them.
BO JACKSON

Football Giving Running
Don’t put off until tomorrow the loving words you can say today.
BO JACKSON

Loving Today Tomorrow Words
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.
BO JACKSON

Always Growing Play Up Years
So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.
BO JACKSON

Baseball Sports Two
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.
BO JACKSON

Baseball College Men
I could throw the discus for great distance s without the proper spin and throw technique.
BO JACKSON

Discuss Distance Technique Throw
Whenever I wasn’t watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.
BO JACKSON

Baseball Soccer Sports
Don’t plan to repent at the 11th hour – you may die at 10:30.
BO JACKSON

Hours May Repent
I’ve always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.
BO JACKSON

Children Kids Years
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.
BO JACKSON

Conditioning Day Every Way
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 JACKSON

Age Kids Play
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.
BO JACKSON

Appearance New Day People Sports

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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