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.
BO JACKSONBut 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.
More Bo Jackson Quotes
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Don’t put off until tomorrow the loving words you can say today.
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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 always wanted to be a pilot.
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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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Don’t plan to repent at the 11th hour – you may die at 10:30.
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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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I’ve always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.
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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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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 could throw the discus for great distance s without the proper spin and throw technique.
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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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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 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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My confidence and drive to go play came when I realized how gifted I was at such a young age and how much bigger my build was than the kids my age.
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The only people I know getting in high places by running their mouth are politicians.
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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 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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It is better to give a lick than receive one.
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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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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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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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If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.
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I was always an Alabama fan growing up, but when the Alabama recruiter told me I would probably not be able to play until the end of my sophomore year, or the beginning of my junior year.
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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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