My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.
BO JACKSONIt 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.
More Bo Jackson Quotes
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I’ve always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.
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It is better to give a lick than receive one.
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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 always wanted to be a pilot.
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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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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 always the fastest and strongest kid in my school so events like the 100 meter and discus throwing attracted me.
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Don’t run too fast through life. You only have one.
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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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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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Football is easy if you’re crazy as hell.
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Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.
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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 was always active – I went from baseball to football. I didn’t have time to work out.
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So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.
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