Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I always wanted to be a pilot.
I love going out and doing new things.
Football is easy if you're crazy as hell.
It is better to give a lick than receive one.
So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.
Don't run too fast through life. You only have one.
So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.
Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.
So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.
I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.
Don't plan to repent at the 11th hour - you may die at 10:30.
My favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog.
Don't put off until tomorrow the loving words you can say today.
If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.
I took a lot of things for granted - especially how I treated my body.
The first game was against Wake Forrest - I'll never forget that game.
Back before I injured my hip, I thought going to the gym was for wimps.
First of all, I really never imagined myself being a professional athlete.
If I miss anything about the sport, it's the camaraderie of old teammates.
I've always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.
In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there.
I am my own person. What I'm doing, I'm happy with it. I'm doing what I want to.
The only people I know getting in high places by running their mouth are politicians.
I am a firm believer in if you can't get it the old fashioned way, you don't need it.
I was always active - I went from baseball to football. I didn't have time to work out.
As a 9th grader, I competed with the high school kids and out of 600 people, I finished 10th.
I wanted to stay close enough so mom could see me play - where I could go home if I needed to.
Really, it's not harder to train for them because once baseball starts you play everyday almost.
You have a lot of people on the run and really don't have time to sit down and eat a balanced meal.
My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.
Being the 8th out of 10 kids, and being the one that stayed in trouble, I sort of became a momma's boy.
Whenever I wasn't watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.
It is better to give a lick than receive one. If anybody got in my way, I tried to run right through them.
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.
Growing up as a kid, the back of my house faced a little community airport about four or five miles from my house.
I think everyone would love to see Jeff Gordon lose or get run into the wall, but I think he uses that - similar to me.
Well, back when I was training, probably the only nutritious thing on the market was Gatorade - that's all that we knew.
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.
When I was a kid, everybody in the neighborhood picked me to be the one in jail or be in the cemetery by the time I was 20.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
The only thing I would change is during the summer - when I was working my summer job, if I was smart, I would have taken flying lessons at Auburn.
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.
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.
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.