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.
BO JACKSONDon’t run too fast through life. You only have one.
More Bo Jackson Quotes
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I have no problem with my hips – I can still do the things that I used to do. I can run, I’m just not the fastest person on the field anymore.
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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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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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I grew up in a tough neighborhood where a lot of kids were older than me.
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I could throw the discus for great distance s without the proper spin and throw technique.
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I think everyone would love to see Jeff Gordon lose or get run into the wall, but I think he uses that – similar to me.
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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 hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.
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It is better to give a lick than receive one.
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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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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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Don’t put off until tomorrow the loving words you can say today.
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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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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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