Bo Jackson Quotes
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I always wanted to be a pilot.
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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. The bat split right in half. Afterward, reporters asked me if it was the first time I'd ever broken a bat over my thigh. "I broke an aluminum bat over my knee in college," I said. (I was just kidding).
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So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.
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I've taken up golf in the past five or six years, and most of the time there aren't too many people out there that can drive a ball further than I can.
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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. Don't try to sum up my career in one or two seasons. Let me finish it first.
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First of all, I really never imagined myself being a professional athlete.
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Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.
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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 hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.
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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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My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.
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I've always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.
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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 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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My favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog.
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So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.
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If I miss anything about the sport, it's the camaraderie of old teammates.
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Being the 8th out of 10 kids, and being the one that stayed in trouble, I sort of became a momma's boy.
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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 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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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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As a 9th grader, I competed with the high school kids and out of 600 people, I finished 10th.
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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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Whenever I wasn't watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.