I am a firm believer in if you can’t get it the old fashioned way, you don’t need it.
BO JACKSONWhenever I wasn’t watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.
More Bo Jackson Quotes
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Don’t plan to repent at the 11th hour – you may die at 10:30.
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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 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 the type of guy that used to get up in the morning and go out and just out run everybody on the field without stretching or warming up or anything.
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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 hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.
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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 am my own person. What I’m doing, I’m happy with it. I’m doing what I want to.
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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 was always active – I went from baseball to football. I didn’t have time to work out.
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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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Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.
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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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Don’t run too fast through life. You only have one.
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You have a lot of people on the run and really don’t have time to sit down and eat a balanced meal.
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