Just let me do what I’m doing, and then when all of this is up, then you can say how my career was.
BO JACKSONMy 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.
More Bo Jackson Quotes
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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, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.
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I have always been an avid bike rider. Even before I became an avid bike rider, I was an avid bike stealer when I was a kid. I am very educated on bikes.
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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’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 hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.
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Don’t run too fast through life. You only have one.
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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 am my own person. What I’m doing, I’m happy with it. I’m doing what I want to.
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Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.
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I grew up in a tough neighborhood where a lot of kids were older than me.
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I’ve always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.
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Football is easy if you’re crazy as hell.
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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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I was always the fastest and strongest kid in my school so events like the 100 meter and discus throwing attracted me.
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