So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.
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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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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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 the type of guy that used to get up in the morning and go out and just out run everybody on the field without stretching or warming up or anything.
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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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Football is easy if you’re crazy as hell.
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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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Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.
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My favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog.
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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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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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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 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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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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So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.
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