Bo Jackson Quotes
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I always wanted to be a pilot.
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So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.
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Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.
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First of all, I really never imagined myself being a professional athlete.
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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.
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I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.
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Being the 8th out of 10 kids, and being the one that stayed in trouble, I sort of became a momma's boy.
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So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.
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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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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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If I miss anything about the sport, it's the camaraderie of old teammates.
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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'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.
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Back before I injured my hip, I thought going to the gym was for wimps.
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I've always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.
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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 favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog.
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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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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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As a 9th grader, I competed with the high school kids and out of 600 people, I finished 10th.
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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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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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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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If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.