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.
BO JACKSONSo you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.
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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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My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.
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I have no problem with my hips – I can still do the things that I used to do. I can run, I’m just not the fastest person on the field anymore.
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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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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 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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I could throw the discus for great distance s without the proper spin and throw technique.
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I took a lot of things for granted – especially how I treated my body.
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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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Don’t put off until tomorrow the loving words you can say today.
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The first game was against Wake Forrest – I’ll never forget that game.
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So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.
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So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.
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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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