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The first game was against Wake Forrest – I’ll never forget that game.

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 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.
BO JACKSON

Always Growing Play Up Years
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 JACKSON

Morning Running Sports
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
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
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
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
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.
BO JACKSON

Baseball Soccer Sports
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
The only people I know getting in high places by running their mouth are politicians.
BO JACKSON

Mouths People Running
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.
BO JACKSON

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

College Sports Years
Don’t run too fast through life. You only have one.
BO JACKSON

Life Running Through
I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.
BO JACKSON

Blow Hate People
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.
BO JACKSON

College Occur School Sports
I took a lot of things for granted – especially how I treated my body.
BO JACKSON

Body Granted Treated

The first game was against Wake Forrest – I’ll never forget that game.

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