Bo Jackson famous quotes

Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.
-- Bo Jackson

#Inspirational #Motivational #Sports

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

#Want #Persons

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.
-- Bo Jackson

#Sports #Father #Kids

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.
-- Bo Jackson

#Kids #Avid #Riders

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.
-- Bo Jackson

#Soccer #Mother #Running

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.
-- Bo Jackson

#Bridges #Trying #Three

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

#Soccer #Sports #Football

The only people I know getting in high places by running their mouth are politicians.
-- Bo Jackson

#Running #People #Mouths

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.
-- Bo Jackson

#Basketball #Soccer #Sports

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.
-- Bo Jackson

#Careers #Two #Trying

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.
-- Bo Jackson

#Sports #Fire #Fans

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.
-- Bo Jackson

#Sports #School #College

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.
-- Bo Jackson

#Sports #Running #Morning

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.
-- Bo Jackson

#Sports #School #College

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 Jackson

#Soccer #Baseball #Football

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

#Running #Nfl

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

#Sports #Guy #Underdog

I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.
-- Bo Jackson

#Hate #Blow #People

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

#Sports #Needs #Way

In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there.
-- Bo Jackson

#Baseball #Action #Pitcher

It is better to give a lick than receive one.
-- Bo Jackson

#Nfl #Giving

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.
-- Bo Jackson

#Sports #Running #People

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

#Soccer #Baseball #Football

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

#Wimps #Hips #Gym

Whenever I wasn't watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.
-- Bo Jackson

#Soccer #Baseball #Football

I always wanted to be a pilot.
-- Bo Jackson

#Pilots #Wanted

If I miss anything about the sport, it's the camaraderie of old teammates.
-- Bo Jackson

#Sports #Missing #Teammate

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.
-- Bo Jackson

#Sports #Running #Insomnia

I love going out and doing new things.
-- Bo Jackson

#Going 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.
-- Bo Jackson

#Sports #Baseball #Football

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

#Running #People #Meals

If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.
-- Bo Jackson

#College #Years #Four

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.
-- Bo Jackson

#Taken #Golf #Past

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

#Kids #Years #Six

So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.
-- Bo Jackson

#Track #Letters #Recruitment

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.
-- Bo Jackson

#Life #Sports

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.
-- Bo Jackson

#New Day #People #Trying

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

#Baseball #Play #Everyday

So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.
-- Bo Jackson

#Baseball #Focused

So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.
-- Bo Jackson

#Baseball #Two

Football is easy if you're crazy as hell.
-- Bo Jackson

#Football #Crazy #Hell

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. The bat split right in half. Afterward, reporters asked me if it was the first time I'd ever broken a bat over my thigh. "I broke an aluminum bat over my knee in college," I said. (I was just kidding).
-- Bo Jackson

#Baseball #College #Men

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.
-- Bo Jackson

#Basketball #Successful #Play

It is better to give a lick than receive one. If anybody got in my way, I tried to run right through them.
-- Bo Jackson

#Football #Running #Giving