So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.
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More Bo Jackson Quotes
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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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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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Whenever I wasn’t watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.
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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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But now, I get up every morning and go to the gym because I don’t like waking up stiff or in pain and wondering if my hip is going to hurt me.
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I have always been an avid bike rider. Even before I became an avid bike rider, I was an avid bike stealer when I was a kid. I am very educated on bikes.
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I could throw the discus for great distance s without the proper spin and throw technique.
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Don’t run too fast through life. You only have one.
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I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.
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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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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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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.
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It is better to give a lick than receive one.
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Football is easy if you’re crazy as hell.
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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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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 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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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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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.
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I always wanted to be a pilot.
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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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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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So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.
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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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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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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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