Bo Jackson Quotes

Obviously I'm not 21 anymore, but I think I can still throw with anybody.

I've been 6 ft. 2 ins. since I was 13.

As a kid, my parents told me I always seemed to play football with older people. As a boy, I always trained in the age group above, and even kicking about on the street, I'd play with the bigger ones.

I surfed competitively from age 13 to 18. Every day, before and after school. I wanted to surf for the rest of my life. It's what all my friends did - I even had it as a subject in school for a number of years.

Cats 25 years younger can't run with me.

I understood from an early age what being competitive means.

Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.

I've been six feet tall since the sixth grade.

Whether it's 1970, 1990, or 2010, kids will be going through the same experiences.

As long as I am able to compete physically with the younger players, I am going to play.

I am blessed with a reasonable athletic talent and was an athlete in school.

I genuinely hit puberty before everyone.

Like many kids, I grew up sports-minded.

Growing up in Quebec, we were always playing sports. Your first athletic competition was against the kids living on your block.

There is lots of enthusiasm among youth of Haryana about sports. They have potential in sports.

If you ask somebody who played basketball against me in the first grade and you watch a tape, it's been with me since I was a kid. I've always had this mentality to go out there and defend.

When you get older, you've got to find some things differently because sometimes your body won't allow you do what you. When you're younger you can do a lot of stuff, moving around.

We played out on the street every single day as a family, with neighbours, at the community centres, and I developed the desire to win very early. That environment instilled a competitive edge in me, which has paid dividends in my life.

When I talk about the early years in Oakland, I don't want to take anything away from who that player was, because that player was still a heck of a player, that player was just young. I played off the field the same way that I played on the field.

I'm probably one of the most competitive people you'll ever meet. I want to dunk on my nephews. I'll block my 2-year-old's shot to make it hard on them.

I'm competitive in everything I do. And that started young. Heck, I started racing bicycles when I was 3.

I was maturing in a way that all my friends weren't. How is it that I'm 10, and I look 15, and all my friends don't?

Growing up, I played football and was always one of the best on the team.

I played a lot of sports growing up. I played soccer.

The realization that I'm never going to run again, the feeling through my hair when you run... you're still a kid. You still have so much life to live.