Football is easy if you’re crazy as hell.
BO JACKSONI 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.
More Bo Jackson Quotes
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The only people I know getting in high places by running their mouth are politicians.
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I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will – that’s just the bottom line.
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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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Don’t run too fast through life. You only have one.
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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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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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So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.
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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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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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I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.
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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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It occurred to me in my junior year of high school. I got my first letter from a big college. I still have that letter to this day – a letter from Indiana.
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I’ve always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.
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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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You have a lot of people on the run and really don’t have time to sit down and eat a balanced meal.
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