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

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

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

Don’t run too fast through life. You only have one. — Bo Jackson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. — Bo Jackson

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

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

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

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. — Bo Jackson

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

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

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. — Bo Jackson

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

Well, back when I was training, probably the only nutritious thing on the market was Gatorade–that’s all that we knew. — Bo Jackson

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

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

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

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

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. — Bo Jackson

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

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

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

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

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