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.
BO JACKSONIt is better to give a lick than receive one.
More Bo Jackson Quotes
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Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.
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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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Don’t plan to repent at the 11th hour – you may die at 10:30.
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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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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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So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.
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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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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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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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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 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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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 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 guarantee you that’s what Jeff Gordon does. He uses everything the fans throw at him to stoke his fire and it drives him to be better at what he does.
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