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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

It is better to give a lick than receive one.
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Better Giving Recieve
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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Distance Kids School
My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.
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Football Soccer Sports
Don’t run too fast through life. You only have one.
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Life Running Through
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
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
I’ve always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.
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Children Kids Years
Football is easy if you’re crazy as hell.
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Crazy Football Sports
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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Conditioning Day Every Way
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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Always Growing Play Up Years
The first game was against Wake Forrest – I’ll never forget that game.
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Firsts Forget Games never
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
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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Needs Sports Way
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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Careers Trying Two
So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.
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Baseball Focused Sports
Whenever I wasn’t watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.
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Baseball Soccer Sports
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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Appearance New Day People Sports
I have no problem with my hips – I can still do the things that I used to do. I can run, I’m just not the fastest person on the field anymore.
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Insomnia Running Sports
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
Don’t put off until tomorrow the loving words you can say today.
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Loving Today Tomorrow Words
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.
BO JACKSON

Day Myself Next Taught
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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Appear Enhance People Running Sports
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.
BO JACKSON

Football Motivational Soccer
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
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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Attitude Determination Team
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 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

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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