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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.

Bo Jackson

My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.
BO JACKSON

Football Soccer Sports
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.
BO JACKSON

Basketball Play Successful
I am my own person. What I’m doing, I’m happy with it. I’m doing what I want to.
BO JACKSON

Own Persons Want
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.
BO JACKSON

Avid Kids Riders
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.
BO JACKSON

Running Thinking Wall
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.
BO JACKSON

Age Balls Kids
My favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog.
BO JACKSON

Guy Sports Underdog
Don’t run too fast through life. You only have one.
BO JACKSON

Life Running Through
So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.
BO JACKSON

Letters Recruitment Track
I guarantee you that’s what Jeff Gordon does. He uses everything the fans throw at him to stoke his fire and it drives him to be better at what he does.
BO JACKSON

Fans Fire Sports
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.
BO JACKSON

Always Growing Play Up Years
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 JACKSON

Appear Enhance People Running Sports
If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.
BO JACKSON

College Sports Years
I took a lot of things for granted – especially how I treated my body.
BO JACKSON

Body Granted Treated
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.
BO JACKSON

Day Myself Next Taught
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.
BO JACKSON

Jail Kids Neighborhood

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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