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.
BO JACKSONYou have a lot of people on the run and really don’t have time to sit down and eat a balanced meal.
More Bo Jackson Quotes
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I have been a fan all my life, but now I have been out of football for over 10 years, and out of baseball for a little over six years and I don’t go to games.
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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 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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The only thing I would change is during the summer – when I was working my summer job, if I was smart, I would have taken flying lessons at Auburn.
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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 struck out with two men on base. I was so angry, so frustrated, I turned and without even thinking about it, snapped my bat over my thigh.
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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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My favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog.
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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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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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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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It is better to give a lick than receive one.
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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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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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