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 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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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 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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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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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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My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.
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Football is easy if you’re crazy as hell.
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Whenever I wasn’t watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.
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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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So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.
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I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.
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So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.
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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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The first game was against Wake Forrest – I’ll never forget that game.
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I grew up in a tough neighborhood where a lot of kids were older than me.
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