I wanted to stay close enough so mom could see me play – where I could go home if I needed to.
BO JACKSONIt is better to give a lick than receive one. If anybody got in my way, I tried to run right through them.
More Bo Jackson Quotes
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So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.
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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 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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I’ve always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.
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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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So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.
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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 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.
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By 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.
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My favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog.
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The only people I know getting in high places by running their mouth are politicians.
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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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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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Don’t put off until tomorrow the loving words you can say today.
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Don’t run too fast through life. You only have one.
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