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.
BO JACKSONSo you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.
More Bo Jackson Quotes
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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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Don’t put off until tomorrow the loving words you can say today.
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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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Football is easy if you’re crazy as hell.
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My confidence and drive to go play came when I realized how gifted I was at such a young age and how much bigger my build was than the kids my age.
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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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The only people I know getting in high places by running their mouth are politicians.
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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 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’ve always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.
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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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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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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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Whenever I wasn’t watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.
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I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.
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