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.
BO JACKSONJust let me do what I’m doing, and then when all of this is up, then you can say how my career was.
More Bo Jackson Quotes
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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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The only people I know getting in high places by running their mouth are politicians.
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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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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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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.
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I’ll never worry about not being successful. I’ll just take it one day at a time, one season at a time. And play as hard as I can.
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So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.
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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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I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will – that’s just the bottom line.
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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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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 grew up in a tough neighborhood where a lot of kids were older than me.
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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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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 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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I was always active – I went from baseball to football. I didn’t have time to work out.
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I wanted to stay close enough so mom could see me play – where I could go home if I needed to.
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Don’t put off until tomorrow the loving words you can say today.
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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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My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.
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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 hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.
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So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.
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The first game was against Wake Forrest – I’ll never forget that game.
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