Zitat des Tages von Bo Jackson:
I love going out and doing new things.
Back before I injured my hip, I thought going to the gym was for wimps.
I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.
My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.
If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.
My favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog.
I've always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.
I always wanted to be a pilot.
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.
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 am a firm believer in if you can't get it the old fashioned way, you don't need it.
If I miss anything about the sport, it's the camaraderie of old teammates.
Really, it's not harder to train for them because once baseball starts you play everyday almost.
So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.
Being the 8th out of 10 kids, and being the one that stayed in trouble, I sort of became a momma's boy.
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.
So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.
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.
In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.
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.
So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.
First of all, I really never imagined myself being a professional athlete.
I was always active - I went from baseball to football. I didn't have time to work out.
Whenever I wasn't watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.
