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 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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My favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog.
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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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Just let me do what I’m doing, and then when all of this is up, then you can say how my career was.
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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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So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.
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The only people I know getting in high places by running their mouth are politicians.
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So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.
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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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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 could throw the discus for great distance s without the proper spin and throw technique.
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Don’t put off until tomorrow the loving words you can say today.
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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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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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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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It’s all about the attitude, gut, heart and determination to go out and give 120% every time to try and help the team win.
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