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.
BO JACKSONSo you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.
More Bo Jackson Quotes
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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.
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Football is easy if you’re crazy as hell.
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Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.
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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.
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But now, I get up every morning and go to the gym because I don’t like waking up stiff or in pain and wondering if my hip is going to hurt me.
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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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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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My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.
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Don’t put off until tomorrow the loving words you can say today.
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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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Whenever I wasn’t watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.
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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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Don’t run too fast through life. You only have one.
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