Bo Jackson Quotes
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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.
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If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.
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Really, it's not harder to train for them because once baseball starts you play everyday almost.
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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 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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Don't sell yourself short because without that you can't go far in life because after sports the only thing you know is sports and you can't do anything else with that.
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I took a lot of things for granted - especially how I treated my body.
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I was always the fastest and strongest kid in my school so events like the 100 meter and discus throwing attracted me. I could throw the discus for great distance s without the proper spin and throw technique.
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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.
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Growing up as a kid, the back of my house faced a little community airport about four or five miles from my house.
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Don't plan to repent at the 11th hour - you may die at 10:30.
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It is better to give a lick than receive one. If anybody got in my way, I tried to run right through them.
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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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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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I was always active - I went from baseball to football. I didn't have time to work out.
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I would say my greatest achievement in life right now - my greatest achievement period is - and I'm still trying to achieve it - is to be a wonderful father to my kids.
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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 love going out and doing new things.
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Don't put off until tomorrow the loving words you can say today. Bo Jackson
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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.