Bo Jackson Quotes

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

  Bo Jackson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Injured, Thought

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Sell, Short

• 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

  Topics in Age

  Tags in People

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

  Bo Jackson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Myself, Imagined

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

  Bo Jackson

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  Tags in School

• Being the 8th out of 10 kids, and being the one that stayed in trouble, I sort of became a momma’s boy.

  Bo Jackson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Kids

• 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

  Topics in Education

• I always wanted to be a pilot.

  Bo Jackson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Wanted, Pilot

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Guarantee

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Problem

• I love going out and doing new things.

  Bo Jackson

  Topics in Love

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

  Bo Jackson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Believer

• 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

  Topics in Life

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

  Bo Jackson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hate

• 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

  Topics in College

  Tags in School

• I was always active – I went from baseball to football. I didn’t have time to work out.

  Bo Jackson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Active, Always

• 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

  Topics in Achievement, Life

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

  Bo Jackson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Miss, Sport

• 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

  Topics in Past

  Tags in Golf

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

  Bo Jackson

  Topics in College, Education

Bo Jackson (34)

Birth:	30th November, 1962
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Baseball Player, Football Player

About

Bo Jackson was born and raised in Bessemer, Alabama. He is a retired American baseball and football player. He is the only athlete to be named an All-Star in two major American sports. He was named the greatest athlete of all time by ESPN. While at Auburn University, Jackson won the 1985 Heisman Trophy, annually awarded to the most outstanding collegiate football player in the United States. After a 1991 hip injury on the field ended his football career, he focused on baseball, and expanded into other pursuits, including the completion of his Bachelor of Science degree in Family and Child Development at Auburn, and appearing in small parts as an actor, in TV shows such as 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' and Married... with Children, and films such as The Chamber.

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