Everyone wants to be like the one and only Bo Jackson. A man who killed a wild bear weighing in at 300 pounds at point blank range with only a pistol in his non-dominant hand. A man who could throw a football from the field all the way up to scoreboard. Yes, Bo jackson was a freak of nature when it came to athletics, but the man gave us determination, motivations, and many lessons. In the book Bo Knows Bo published by Doubleday in 1990, covers Bo Jackson's life from his childhood in Bessemer, Alabama to the peak of his athletic abilities in 1990. While in 1990, Jackson suffered a hip dislocation injury that ended his NFL career and eventually led to the end of his MLB career also. The book also gives Jackson's account of what happened after …show more content…
It is that a missed opportunity, through no fault of his own, that seems to define Jackson’s two-sport playing career nearly 20 years after he last suited up for a game. And yet the mythology surrounding him is as strong as ever. Could he really have been the very best running back in football history and the best power hitter to ever play baseball? We’ll never know for sure. A devastating hip injury led to his premature exit from both sports. But despite being unable to continue on the path he seemed born to follow, Jackson has picked up the pieces and made something entirely different of himself, realizing new kinds of success. He dabbled in acting for a while, though it wasn’t for him. He headed in a health care company’s sports medicine council. He invested time and money into growing a food distribution company, as well as a bank, of which he still owns a piece of. Over the years he has become a serial entrepreneur and today devoting most of his time to the Bo Jackson's Elite Sports program, which holds an 88,000-square-foot indoor athletic training facility in Chicago and is building another location outside Columbus, Ohio. The facilities’ mission is to help kids train and play sports the right way while also nurturing them off the field. These programs that Bo is evolved in have led to a great deal of success and handed Bo the chance of achieving bigger things, instead with a passion in the business industry. It goes to show that you shouldn’t always only stick with only a single passion because maybe that goal is too far from your reach. That doesn't mean to just give up, there are other duties to be filled in life that you can become greatly successful in that you just might surprisingly