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.
Don’t run too fast through life. You only have one.
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.
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.
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.
Don’t put off until tomorrow the loving words you can say today.
It is better to give a lick than receive one. If anybody got in my way, I tried to run right through them.
My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.
So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.
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.
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.
Football is easy if you’re crazy as hell.
I am my own person. What I’m doing, I’m happy with it. I’m doing what I want to.
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.
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.
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 am a firm believer in if you can’t get it the old fashioned way, you don’t need it.
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.
It is better to give a lick than receive one.
My sophomore year I placed 2nd, and my junior and senior year – I got smart and piled up enough points between myself and second place where I didn’t have to run the mile.