I grew up in a tough neighborhood where a lot of kids were older than me.
BO JACKSONI hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.
More Bo Jackson Quotes
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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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Don’t plan to repent at the 11th hour – you may die at 10:30.
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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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Don’t put off until tomorrow the loving words you can say today.
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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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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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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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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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Whenever I wasn’t watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.
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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.
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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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Football is easy if you’re crazy as hell.
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I could throw the discus for great distance s without the proper spin and throw technique.
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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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The first game was against Wake Forrest – I’ll never forget that game.
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