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.
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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It is better to give a lick than receive one.
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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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So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.
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I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.
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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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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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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 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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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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So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.
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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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My favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog.
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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 always wanted to be a pilot.
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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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