My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.
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More Bo Jackson Quotes
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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’ll never worry about not being successful. I’ll just take it one day at a time, one season at a time. And play as hard as I can.
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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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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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So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.
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My favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog.
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So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.
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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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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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I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.
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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.
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I have been a fan all my life, but now I have been out of football for over 10 years, and out of baseball for a little over six years and I don’t go to games.
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The first game was against Wake Forrest – I’ll never forget that game.
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Don’t run too fast through life. You only have one.
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Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.
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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 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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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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Don’t put off until tomorrow the loving words you can say today.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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