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.

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).

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.

I taught myself how to pole vault in one day. The next day I entered a meet to pole vault and won it all for the state of Alabama.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

It is better to give a lick than receive one.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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'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.

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.

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.

I wanted to stay close enough so mom could see me play - where I could go home if I needed to.

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.