Don’t run too fast through life. You only have one.
BO JACKSONDon’t run too fast through life. You only have one.
BO JACKSONThe 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 JACKSONBy 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.
BO JACKSONI am a firm believer in if you can’t get it the old fashioned way, you don’t need it.
BO JACKSONBut 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.
BO JACKSONDon’t put off until tomorrow the loving words you can say today.
BO JACKSONMy favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog.
BO JACKSONI 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.
BO JACKSONWhenever I wasn’t watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.
BO JACKSONSo, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.
BO JACKSONI have been a fan all my life, but now I have been out of football for over 10 years, and out of baseball for a little over six years and I don’t go to games.
BO JACKSONIt 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.
BO JACKSONI 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.
BO JACKSONDon’t plan to repent at the 11th hour – you may die at 10:30.
BO JACKSONThe 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.
BO JACKSONI 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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