I was always the fastest and strongest kid in my school so events like the 100 meter and discus throwing attracted me.
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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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’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 have no problem with my hips – I can still do the things that I used to do. I can run, I’m just not the fastest person on the field anymore.
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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 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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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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I always wanted to be a pilot.
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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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Whenever I wasn’t watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.
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I’ve always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.
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If my mother put on a helmet and shoulder pads and a uniform that wasn’t the same as the one I was wearing, I’d run over her if she was in my way. And I love my mother.
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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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I could throw the discus for great distance s without the proper spin and throw technique.
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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 am a firm believer in if you can’t get it the old fashioned way, you don’t need it.
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