Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.
BO JACKSONI think everyone would love to see Jeff Gordon lose or get run into the wall, but I think he uses that – similar to me.
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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If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.
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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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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 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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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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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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Don’t plan to repent at the 11th hour – you may die at 10:30.
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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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The first game was against Wake Forrest – I’ll never forget that game.
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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 only people I know getting in high places by running their mouth are politicians.
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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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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.
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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.
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