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.
BO JACKSONI wanted to stay close enough so mom could see me play – where I could go home if I needed to.
More Bo Jackson Quotes
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The first game was against Wake Forrest – I’ll never forget that game.
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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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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 took a lot of things for granted – especially how I treated my body.
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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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I have no problem with my hips – I can still do the things that I used to do. I can run, I’m just not the fastest person on the field anymore.
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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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Just let me do what I’m doing, and then when all of this is up, then you can say how my career was.
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It is better to give a lick than receive one.
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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 guarantee you that’s what Jeff Gordon does. He uses everything the fans throw at him to stoke his fire and it drives him to be better at what he does.
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So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.
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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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So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.
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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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