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.
BO JACKSONIf 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.
More Bo Jackson Quotes
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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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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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You have a lot of people on the run and really don’t have time to sit down and eat a balanced meal.
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So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.
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Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.
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The first game was against Wake Forrest – I’ll never forget that game.
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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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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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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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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 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 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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It is better to give a lick than receive one.
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The only people I know getting in high places by running their mouth are politicians.
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I took a lot of things for granted – especially how I treated my body.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 grew up in a tough neighborhood where a lot of kids were older than me.
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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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I think everyone would love to see Jeff Gordon lose or get run into the wall, but I think he uses that – similar to me.
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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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I always wanted to be a pilot.
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