Bo Jackson Quotes

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.

I've always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.

First of all, I really never imagined myself being a professional athlete.

I always wanted to be a pilot.

Don't plan to repent at the 11th hour - you may die at 10:30.

Don't put off until tomorrow the loving words you can say today.

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.

You practice Monday through Friday in college, or Monday through Saturday in the pro's - and then you just go out and knock somebody's head off.

I was always active - I went from baseball to football. I didn't have time to work out.

Baseball and football are very different games. In a way, both of them are easy. Football is easy if you're crazy as hell. Baseball is easy if you've got patience. They'd both be easier for me if I were a little more crazy - and a little more patient.

Don't sell yourself short because without that you can't go far in life because after sports the only thing you know is sports and you can't do anything else with that.

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.

Don't run too fast through life. You only have one.

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.

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.

I am a firm believer in if you can't get it the old fashioned way, you don't need it.

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.

Really, it's not harder to train for them because once baseball starts you play everyday almost.

My sophomore year I placed 2nd, and my junior and senior year - I got smart and piled up enough points between myself and second place where I didn't have to run the mile.

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.

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.

Growing up as a kid, the back of my house faced a little community airport about four or five miles from my house.

My favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog.

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.

I grew up in a tough neighborhood where a lot of kids were older than me. 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.

My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.

I was always the fastest and strongest kid in my school so events like the 100 meter and discus throwing attracted me. I could throw the discus for great distance s without the proper spin and throw technique.

Back before I injured my hip, I thought going to the gym was for wimps.

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.

As a 9th grader, I competed with the high school kids and out of 600 people, I finished 10th.

I've taken up golf in the past five or six years, and most of the time there aren't too many people out there that can drive a ball further than I can.

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.

I took a lot of things for granted - especially how I treated my body.

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.

I am my own person. What I'm doing, I'm happy with it. I'm doing what I want to.

I would say my greatest achievement in life right now - my greatest achievement period is - and I'm still trying to achieve it - is to be a wonderful father to my kids.

Just let me do what I'm doing, and then when all of this is up, then you can say how my career was. Don't try to sum up my career in one or two seasons. Let me finish it first.

I love going out and doing new things.

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.

You have a lot of people on the run and really don't have time to sit down and eat a balanced meal.