Don’t run too fast through life. You only have one.
BO JACKSONSo, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.
More Bo Jackson Quotes
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I could throw the discus for great distance s without the proper spin and throw technique.
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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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Don’t put off until tomorrow the loving words you can say today.
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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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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 took a lot of things for granted – especially how I treated my body.
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I’ve always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than 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’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’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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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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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 always wanted to be a pilot.
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I grew up in a tough neighborhood where a lot of kids were older than me.
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So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.
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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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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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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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Football is easy if you’re crazy as hell.
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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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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 only people I know getting in high places by running their mouth are politicians.
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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 hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.
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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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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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