So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.
BO JACKSONThe 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.
More Bo Jackson Quotes
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Don’t run too fast through life. You only have one.
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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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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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I could throw the discus for great distance s without the proper spin and throw technique.
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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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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 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 grew up in a tough neighborhood where a lot of kids were older than me.
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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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I am my own person. What I’m doing, I’m happy with it. I’m doing what I want to.
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Don’t plan to repent at the 11th hour – you may die at 10:30.
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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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So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.
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My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.
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