I am my own person. What I’m doing, I’m happy with it. I’m doing what I want to.
BO JACKSONI’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.
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 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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I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.
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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’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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I was always active – I went from baseball to football. I didn’t have time to work out.
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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 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 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 wanted to stay close enough so mom could see me play – where I could go home if I needed to.
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Football is easy if you’re crazy as hell.
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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 took a lot of things for granted – especially how I treated my body.
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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 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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