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Bo Jackson

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
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 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
If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.
BO JACKSON

College Sports Years
Don’t plan to repent at the 11th hour – you may die at 10:30.
BO JACKSON

Hours May Repent
It is better to give a lick than receive one. If anybody got in my way, I tried to run right through them.
BO JACKSON

Football Giving Running
The only thing I would change is during the summer – when I was working my summer job, if I was smart, I would have taken flying lessons at Auburn.
BO JACKSON

Jobs Smart Summer
So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.
BO JACKSON

Baseball Focused Sports
I have been a fan all my life, but now I have been out of football for over 10 years, and out of baseball for a little over six years and I don’t go to games.
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Baseball Soccer Sports
It is better to give a lick than receive one.
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Better Giving Recieve
You have a lot of people on the run and really don’t have time to sit down and eat a balanced meal.
BO JACKSON

People Running Sports
My favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog.
BO JACKSON

Guy Sports Underdog
Football is easy if you’re crazy as hell.
BO JACKSON

Crazy Football Sports
I grew up in a tough neighborhood where a lot of kids were older than me.
BO JACKSON

Kids Long Tough
I’ve always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.
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Children Kids Years
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
Don’t put off until tomorrow the loving words you can say today.
BO JACKSON

Loving Today Tomorrow Words
I could throw the discus for great distance s without the proper spin and throw technique.
BO JACKSON

Discuss Distance Technique Throw
So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.
BO JACKSON

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

Baseball Football Soccer
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 JACKSON

College School Sports
The first game was against Wake Forrest – I’ll never forget that game.
BO JACKSON

Firsts Forget Games never
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.
BO JACKSON

Football Motivational Soccer
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.
BO JACKSON

Conditioning Day Every Way
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 am a firm believer in if you can’t get it the old fashioned way, you don’t need it.
BO JACKSON

Needs Sports Way
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.
BO JACKSON

Attitude Determination Team

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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