Don’t run too fast through life. You only have one.
BO JACKSONThe way strength and conditioning has helped me now is that I make it a point to go to the gym everyday if I can.
More Bo Jackson Quotes
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It is better to give a lick than receive one.
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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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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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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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Don’t put off until tomorrow the loving words you can say today.
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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’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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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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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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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 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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Football is easy if you’re crazy as hell.
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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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My favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog.
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I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.
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Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.
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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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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 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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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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I am my own person. What I’m doing, I’m happy with it. I’m doing what I want to.
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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 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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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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