The way strength and conditioning has helped me now is that I make it a point to go to the gym everyday if I can.
BO JACKSONI’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.
More Bo Jackson Quotes
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I struck out with two men on base. I was so angry, so frustrated, I turned and without even thinking about it, snapped my bat over my thigh.
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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.
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I grew up in a tough neighborhood where a lot of kids were older than me.
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Don’t run too fast through life. You only have one.
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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 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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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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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 hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.
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So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.
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It is better to give a lick than receive one.
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Don’t plan to repent at the 11th hour – you may die at 10:30.
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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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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.
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