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.
BO JACKSONDon’t plan to repent at the 11th hour – you may die at 10:30.
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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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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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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So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.
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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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I struck out with two men on base. I was so angry, so frustrated, I turned and without even thinking about it, snapped my bat over my thigh.
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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 am a firm believer in if you can’t get it the old fashioned way, you don’t need it.
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So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.
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The only people I know getting in high places by running their mouth are politicians.
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I always wanted to be a pilot.
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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.
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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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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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Back when I was training, probably the only nutritious thing on the market was Gatorade-that’s all that we knew. 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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