I am my own person. What I’m doing, I’m happy with it. I’m doing what I want to.
BO JACKSONI 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.
More Bo Jackson Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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.
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The first game was against Wake Forrest – I’ll never forget that game.
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I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.
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I’ve always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.
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So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.
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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 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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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.
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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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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 took a lot of things for granted – especially how I treated my body.
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