53 Quotes by Bo Jackson
Bo Jackson, a former professional baseball and football player, is widely regarded as one of the greatest athletes of all time. Known for his exceptional speed, strength, and versatility, Jackson excelled in both Major League Baseball and the National Football League (NFL). In baseball, he showcased his power hitting and outstanding fielding skills, earning All-Star Game appearances and winning the All-Star Game MVP award in 1989.
On the football field, Jackson's explosive speed and agility made him a formidable running back, earning him Pro Bowl honors and leaving a lasting impact on the sport. Jackson's incredible athletic ability and success in two major sports simultaneously made him a cultural icon, transcending the world of sports. Despite his career being cut short due to a hip injury, Jackson's legacy as an extraordinary athlete and his impact on popular culture remain unparalleled, inspiring generations of athletes and fans alike.
Bo Jackson Quotes
Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.
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.
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.
Back before I injured my hip, I thought going to the gym was for wimps.
Don't plan to repent at the 11th hour - you may die at 10:30.
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.
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.
It is better to give a lick than receive one. If anybody got in my way, I tried to run right through them.
Well, back when I was training, probably the only nutritious thing on the market was Gatorade - that's all that we knew.
My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.
Don't put off until tomorrow the loving words you can say today. (Meaning)
The only people I know getting in high places by running their mouth are politicians.
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.
If I miss anything about the sport, it's the camaraderie of old teammates.
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 am a firm believer in if you can't get it the old fashioned way, you don't need it.
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.
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.
So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.
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.
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.
Football is easy if you're crazy as hell.
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.
It is better to give a lick than receive one.
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.
If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.
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. I am a firm believer in if you can't get it the old fashioned way, you don't need it. You have a lot of people on the run and really don't have time to sit down and eat a balanced meal.
I was always active - I went from baseball to football. I didn't have time to work out.
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.
My favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog.
But 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.
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.
In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there.
I took a lot of things for granted - especially how I treated my body.
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.
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'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.
Whenever I wasn't watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.
Really, it's not harder to train for them because once baseball starts you play everyday almost.
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.
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.
You have a lot of people on the run and really don't have time to sit down and eat a balanced meal.
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.
I always wanted to be a pilot.
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've always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.
Growing up as a kid, the back of my house faced a little community airport about four or five miles from my house.
So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.
So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.
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.
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.
The first game was against Wake Forrest - I'll never forget that game.
― Bo Jackson Quotes
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