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 JACKSONBy 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.
More Bo Jackson Quotes
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I took a lot of things for granted – especially how I treated my body.
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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 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. If anybody got in my way, I tried to run right through them.
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Don’t put off until tomorrow the loving words you can say today.
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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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So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.
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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 could throw the discus for great distance s without the proper spin and throw technique.
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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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Don’t plan to repent at the 11th hour – you may die at 10:30.
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I’ve always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.
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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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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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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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