Quotes from Bo Jackson

I always wanted to be a pilot.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Football is easy if you're crazy as hell.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.