It is better to give a lick than receive one. If anybody got in my way, I tried to run right through them.
BO JACKSONI guarantee you that’s what Jeff Gordon does. He uses everything the fans throw at him to stoke his fire and it drives him to be better at what he does.
More Bo Jackson Quotes
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I took a lot of things for granted – especially how I treated my body.
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Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.
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The only people I know getting in high places by running their mouth are politicians.
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I’m the type of person, I cross the bridges once I get to ’em. I don’t try to plan my life three, four months in advance, because you don’t know if tomorrow’s promised to you.
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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.
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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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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 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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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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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 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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My favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog.
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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.
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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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So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.
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