Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.
BO JACKSONWhen 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.
More Bo Jackson Quotes
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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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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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So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.
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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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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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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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Don’t put off until tomorrow the loving words you can say today.
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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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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 took a lot of things for granted – especially how I treated my body.
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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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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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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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My favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog.
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So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.
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