Bo Jackson Quotes

I played Little League and in high school. I played more over the years whenever there was a pick-up game... usually softball.

In my neighborhood in Springfield, Ohio, there were a lot of young kids. We all played tackle football after school, but I knew very early on that I was not an athlete.

In the summertime, I played Little League baseball; football in the fall; basketball in the winter.

I played Little League in junior high and high school.

I always played sports when I was young. I played football and baseball for eight years. I loved football.

I was a baseball guy. Mom wouldn't let me play football when I was little because she was scared I'd get hurt. So, I finally convinced her to let me play in 7th grade.

As a kid, I used to love to play baseball and be in Little League and sleep outside with my friends and do all those kind of things.

I would say I was into two sports as a kid: basketball and baseball.

Growing up in Bloomington, Minn., I loved the ritual of dressing for Little League - in white socks, blue stirrups, belted pants, a double-knit jersey, and the cap I'd hold over my face to screen out mosquitoes in right field.

Oh man... growing up, I played everything. I played football, basketball, baseball.

As a kid from Detroit, I played whatever sport was in season: football, basketball, wrestling, whatever it was. I was an active kid.

I watched football, but I was a kid who really preferred being out on the street with my mates playing hide and seek!

I wanted so badly to play in the park across the street because the kids were playing baseball and football but I had to record.

We used to play touch football, where you put the little rag in your pocket. I was good because I was fast. I wasn't the greatest at catching. Sometimes the ball would come so hard and fast that it'd knock the wind out of me.

Football was really my least favorite sport and the last sport that I ended up picking up as a kid. My dad started me off with baseball, which most kids did at that time. I really enjoyed basketball. That was my favorite sport.

I grew up a huge jock, a lot of basketball and football. We had a pond in my back yard growing up, and we played a lot of hockey, too. I loved to score goals.

Most parents were, like, Little League coaches and all that. My dad was a wrestling fan. Instead of going out and playing home run derby with my old man, we just watched wrestling together.

I grew up an athlete, growing up in Pittsburgh. I played basketball. I played football. I played a little bit of baseball in my earlier years.

Prior to high school, I played a lot of neighborhood football.

I started out with a tennis racquet. Later, during one of the breaks we got from tennis, I started playing football with my friends. I was only five years old.

I used to finish school and go and play football.

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

I'm the oldest in my family, and I grew up with brothers, so we would be on the front lawn every day playing football, whether it's tackle or tag.

My memories from childhood always involve a football.

I didn't do any football stuff when I was a kid... Mostly baseball and basketball the whole time. That's all I did. I played football starting in seventh grade. As I got older, I started playing a little bit more. Then in high school, I really fell in love with it.