Don’t run too fast through life. You only have one.
BO JACKSONThe 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.
More Bo Jackson Quotes
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Football is easy if you’re crazy as hell.
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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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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 put off until tomorrow the loving words you can say today.
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When I was a kid, everybody in the neighborhood picked me to be the one in jail or be in the cemetery by the time I was 20.
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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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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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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 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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I always wanted to be a pilot.
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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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So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.
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So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.
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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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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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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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It is better to give a lick than receive one.
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I wanted to stay close enough so mom could see me play – where I could go home if I needed to.
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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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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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I was always the fastest and strongest kid in my school so events like the 100 meter and discus throwing attracted me.
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Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.
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If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.
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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’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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