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.
BO JACKSONSet your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.
More Bo Jackson Quotes
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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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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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So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.
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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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Don’t plan to repent at the 11th hour – you may die at 10:30.
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So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.
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I could throw the discus for great distance s without the proper spin and throw technique.
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I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.
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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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I always wanted to be a pilot.
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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’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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The only thing I would change is during the summer – when I was working my summer job, if I was smart, I would have taken flying lessons at Auburn.
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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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Football is easy if you’re crazy as hell.
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