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.
BO JACKSONBack 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.
More Bo Jackson Quotes
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Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.
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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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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 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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Don’t plan to repent at the 11th hour – you may die at 10:30.
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Football is easy if you’re crazy as hell.
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My favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog.
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I grew up in a tough neighborhood where a lot of kids were older than me.
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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.
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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.
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Whenever I wasn’t watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.
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I’ve always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.
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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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The only people I know getting in high places by running their mouth are politicians.
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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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If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.
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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.
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It is better to give a lick than receive one. If anybody got in my way, I tried to run right through them.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 was always active – I went from baseball to football. I didn’t have time to work out.
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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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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 my own person. What I’m doing, I’m happy with it. I’m doing what I want to.
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