Top 60 Bo Jackson Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.”

— Bo Jackson

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2. “I always wanted to be a pilot.”

— Bo Jackson

3. “Don’t plan to repent at the 11th hour – you may die at 10:30.”

— Bo Jackson

4. “Don’t put off until tomorrow the loving words you can say today.”

— Bo Jackson

5. “Don’t run too fast through life. You only have one.”

— Bo Jackson

6. “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

7. “I am my own person. What I’m doing, I’m happy with it. I’m doing what I want to.”

— Bo Jackson

8. “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

9. “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

10. “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

11. “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.”

— Bo Jackson

12. “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

13. “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

14. “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.”

— Bo Jackson

15. “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.”

— Bo Jackson

16. “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

17. “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.”

— Bo Jackson

18. “I wanted to stay close enough so mom could see me play – where I could go home if I needed to.”

— Bo Jackson

19. “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

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

— Bo Jackson

21. “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

22. “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

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

— Bo Jackson

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

— Bo Jackson

25. “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

26. “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.”

— Bo Jackson

27. “Football is easy if you’re crazy as hell.”

— Bo Jackson

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

— Bo Jackson

29. “It is better to give a lick than receive one.”

— Bo Jackson

30. “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.”

— Bo Jackson

31. “Really, it’s not harder to train for them because once baseball starts you play everyday almost.”

— Bo Jackson

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

— Bo Jackson

33. “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.”

— Bo Jackson

34. “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

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

— Bo Jackson

36. “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.”

— Bo Jackson

37. “I took a lot of things for granted – especially how I treated my body.”

— Bo Jackson

38. “Well, back when I was training, probably the only nutritious thing on the market was Gatorade – that’s all that we knew.”

— Bo Jackson

39. “The only people I know getting in high places by running their mouth are politicians.”

— Bo Jackson

40. “It is better to give a lick than receive one. If anybody got in my way, I tried to run right through them.”

— Bo Jackson

41. “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

42. “Growing up as a kid, the back of my house faced a little community airport about four or five miles from my house.”

— Bo Jackson

43. “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

44. “So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.”

— Bo Jackson

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

— Bo Jackson

46. “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.”

— Bo Jackson

47. “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.”

— Bo Jackson

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

— Bo Jackson

49. “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

50. “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