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.
BO JACKSONDon’t plan to repent at the 11th hour – you may die at 10:30.
More Bo Jackson Quotes
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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 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’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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Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.
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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 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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The only people I know getting in high places by running their mouth are politicians.
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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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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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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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My favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog.
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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 could throw the discus for great distance s without the proper spin and throw technique.
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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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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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Don’t run too fast through life. You only have one.
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I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.
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It’s all about the attitude, gut, heart and determination to go out and give 120% every time to try and help the team win.
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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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Don’t put off until tomorrow the loving words you can say today.
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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 am a firm believer in if you can’t get it the old fashioned way, you don’t need it.
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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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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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