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.Collection: Fathers
Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.Collection: Motivational
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.Collection: Sports
If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.Collection: Education
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.Collection: Education
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.Collection: Morning
I always wanted to be a pilot.
My favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog.
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.
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.
Back before I injured my hip, I thought going to the gym was for wimps.
So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.
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.
First of all, I really never imagined myself being a professional athlete.
I love going out and doing new things.
I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.
Really, it's not harder to train for them because once baseball starts you play everyday almost.
My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.
So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.
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.
You have a lot of people on the run and really don't have time to sit down and eat a balanced meal.
As a 9th grader, I competed with the high school kids and out of 600 people, I finished 10th.
Being the 8th out of 10 kids, and being the one that stayed in trouble, I sort of became a momma's boy.
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 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 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.
I was always active - I went from baseball to football. I didn't have time to work out.
I've always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.
In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there.
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, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.
Whenever I wasn't watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.
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.Collection: Determination
Don't run too fast through life. You only have one.Collection: Running
Don't put off until tomorrow the loving words you can say today.Collection: Today
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.Collection: Motivational
Don't plan to repent at the 11th hour - you may die at 10:30.Collection: May
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.Collection: Basketball
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.Collection: Sports
The only people I know getting in high places by running their mouth are politicians.Collection: Running
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.Collection: Next Day
It is better to give a lick than receive one. If anybody got in my way, I tried to run right through them.Collection: Football
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).Collection: Baseball
It is better to give a lick than receive one.Collection: Nfl
I am my own person. What I'm doing, I'm happy with it. I'm doing what I want to.Collection: Want
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.Collection: Bridges
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.Collection: Careers
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.Collection: Kids
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.Collection: Distance