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.
BO JACKSONBut now, I get up every morning and go to the gym because I don’t like waking up stiff or in pain and wondering if my hip is going to hurt me.
More Bo Jackson Quotes
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My favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog.
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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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I guarantee you that’s what Jeff Gordon does. He uses everything the fans throw at him to stoke his fire and it drives him to be better at what he does.
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Don’t put off until tomorrow the loving words you can say today.
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So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.
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My 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.
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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 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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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 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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My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.
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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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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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