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.
BO JACKSONSo, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.
More Bo Jackson Quotes
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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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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 hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.
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I could throw the discus for great distance s without the proper spin and throw technique.
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Just let me do what I’m doing, and then when all of this is up, then you can say how my career was.
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The first game was against Wake Forrest – I’ll never forget that game.
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Don’t put off until tomorrow the loving words you can say today.
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I was the type of guy that used to get up in the morning and go out and just out run everybody on the field without stretching or warming up or anything.
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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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I’ve always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.
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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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I was a pitcher, shortstop and outfielder, and the Yankees tried to sign me out of high school as a first-round draft pick in 1981. I turned them down to go to college.
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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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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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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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