I was always the fastest and strongest kid in my school so events like the 100 meter and discus throwing attracted me.
BO JACKSONI grew up in a tough neighborhood where a lot of kids were older than me.
More Bo Jackson Quotes
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So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.
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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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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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I grew up in a tough neighborhood where a lot of kids were 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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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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Don’t run too fast through life. You only have one.
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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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I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.
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Football is easy if you’re crazy as hell.
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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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Don’t put off until tomorrow the loving words you can say today.
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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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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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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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