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

Bo Jackson

I wanted to stay close enough so mom could see me play – where I could go home if I needed to.
BO JACKSON

Home Mom Play
I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.
BO JACKSON

Blow Hate People
The first game was against Wake Forrest – I’ll never forget that game.
BO JACKSON

Firsts Forget Games never
I struck out with two men on base. I was so angry, so frustrated, I turned and without even thinking about it, snapped my bat over my thigh.
BO JACKSON

Baseball College Men
I was always the fastest and strongest kid in my school so events like the 100 meter and discus throwing attracted me.
BO JACKSON

Distance Kids School
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
Football is easy if you’re crazy as hell.
BO JACKSON

Crazy Football Sports
So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.
BO JACKSON

Baseball Focused 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 was always active – I went from baseball to football. I didn’t have time to work out.
BO JACKSON

Baseball Football Soccer
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.
BO JACKSON

Age Kids Play
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.
BO JACKSON

College Occur School Sports
I grew up in a tough neighborhood where a lot of kids were older than me.
BO JACKSON

Kids Long Tough
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.
BO JACKSON

Basketball Soccer Sports
But now, I get up every morning and go to the gym because I don’t like waking up stiff or in pain and wondering if my hip is going to hurt me.
BO JACKSON

Hurt Morning Pain
Just let me do what I’m doing, and then when all of this is up, then you can say how my career was.
BO JACKSON

Careers Trying Two

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