I grew up in a tough neighborhood where a lot of kids were older than me.
BO JACKSONI took a lot of things for granted – especially how I treated my body.
More Bo Jackson Quotes
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Football is easy if you’re crazy as hell.
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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.
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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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So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.
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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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Whenever I wasn’t watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.
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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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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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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.
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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 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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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 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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So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.
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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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