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 JACKSONI 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.
More Bo Jackson Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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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I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.
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Football is easy if you’re crazy as hell.
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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.
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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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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 was always the fastest and strongest kid in my school so events like the 100 meter and discus throwing attracted me.
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You have a lot of people on the run and really don’t have time to sit down and eat a balanced meal.
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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.
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I was the type of guy that used to get up in the morning and go out and just out run everybody on the field without stretching or warming up or anything.
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I could throw the discus for great distance s without the proper spin and throw technique.
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My favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog.
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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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