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.
BO JACKSONI 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.
More Bo Jackson Quotes
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I grew up in a tough neighborhood where a lot of kids were older than me.
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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 was always active – I went from baseball to football. I didn’t have time to work out.
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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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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 always wanted to be a pilot.
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I’ve always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.
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I could throw the discus for great distance s without the proper spin and throw technique.
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Football is easy if you’re crazy as hell.
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I was always an Alabama fan growing up, but when the Alabama recruiter told me I would probably not be able to play until the end of my sophomore year, or the beginning of my junior year.
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I took a lot of things for granted – especially how I treated my body.
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So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.
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So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.
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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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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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