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.
BO JACKSONIt is better to give a lick than receive one.
More Bo Jackson Quotes
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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, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.
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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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So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.
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Don’t plan to repent at the 11th hour – you may die at 10:30.
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Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.
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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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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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The first game was against Wake Forrest – I’ll never forget that game.
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I could throw the discus for great distance s without the proper spin and throw technique.
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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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It is better to give a lick than receive one. If anybody got in my way, I tried to run right through them.
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I’ve always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.
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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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I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.
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