The first game was against Wake Forrest – I’ll never forget that game.
BO JACKSONWhenever I wasn’t watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.
More Bo Jackson Quotes
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The only people I know getting in high places by running their mouth are politicians.
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I always wanted to be a pilot.
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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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It’s all about the attitude, gut, heart and determination to go out and give 120% every time to try and help the team win.
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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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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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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 was always an Alabama fan growing up, but when the Alabama recruiter told me I would probably not be able to play until the end of my sophomore year, or the beginning of my junior year.
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So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.
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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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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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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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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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Back when I was training, probably the only nutritious thing on the market was Gatorade-that’s all that we knew. But 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.
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You have a lot of people on the run and really don’t have time to sit down and eat a balanced meal.
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