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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.

Bo Jackson

I always wanted to be a pilot.
BO JACKSON

Always Pilots Wanted
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.
BO JACKSON

Basketball Play Successful
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.
BO JACKSON

Attitude Determination Team
I was a pitcher, shortstop and outfielder, and the Yankees tried to sign me out of high school as a first-round draft pick in 1981. I turned them down to go to college.
BO JACKSON

College School Sports
Just let me do what I’m doing, and then when all of this is up, then you can say how my career was.
BO JACKSON

Careers Trying Two
So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.
BO JACKSON

Letters Recruitment Track
I was always the fastest and strongest kid in my school so events like the 100 meter and discus throwing attracted me.
BO JACKSON

Distance Kids School
I wanted to stay close enough so mom could see me play – where I could go home if I needed to.
BO JACKSON

Home Mom Play
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.
BO JACKSON

Avid Kids Riders
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.
BO JACKSON

Conditioning Day Every Way
I am a firm believer in if you can’t get it the old fashioned way, you don’t need it.
BO JACKSON

Needs Sports Way
The only people I know getting in high places by running their mouth are politicians.
BO JACKSON

Mouths People Running
I am my own person. What I’m doing, I’m happy with it. I’m doing what I want to.
BO JACKSON

Own Persons Want
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.
BO JACKSON

Always Growing Play Up Years
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.
BO JACKSON

Baseball College Men
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.
BO JACKSON

Jobs Smart Summer
The first game was against Wake Forrest – I’ll never forget that game.
BO JACKSON

Firsts Forget Games never
Don’t plan to repent at the 11th hour – you may die at 10:30.
BO JACKSON

Hours May Repent
I was always active – I went from baseball to football. I didn’t have time to work out.
BO JACKSON

Baseball Football Soccer
Whenever I wasn’t watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.
BO JACKSON

Baseball Soccer Sports
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.
BO JACKSON

Baseball Soccer Sports
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.
BO JACKSON

Day Myself Next Taught
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.
BO JACKSON

Football Motivational Soccer
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.
BO JACKSON

Age Kids Play
I took a lot of things for granted – especially how I treated my body.
BO JACKSON

Body Granted Treated
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.
BO JACKSON

Fans Fire Sports
Don’t run too fast through life. You only have one.
BO JACKSON

Life Running Through

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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