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.
BO JACKSONIf you have four years to complete your college education, do it.
More Bo Jackson Quotes
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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 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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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 took a lot of things for granted – especially how I treated my body.
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So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.
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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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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.
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I could throw the discus for great distance s without the proper spin and throw technique.
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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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The only people I know getting in high places by running their mouth are politicians.
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I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.
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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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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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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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