"I love going out and doing new things"
About this Quote
The subtext is risk, and a kind of freedom. New things are where failure lives, where reputations can get dented. For an athlete, especially a Black superstar in the late 1980s and early 1990s, "new" also meant refusing the lane that institutions prefer. Jackson's career was defined by boundary-crossing: football and baseball, speed and power, celebrity and reserve. The sentence is a refusal to be reduced to a single storyline or sport.
Context sharpens the edge. Jackson's mythology sits at the intersection of natural talent and freakish versatility, a culture moment when commercials ("Bo Knows") turned athletic range into mass-market identity. Against that backdrop, the quote reads like the human version of those ads: curiosity as performance, yes, but also as self-protection. If you keep moving into novelty, you can't be pinned down, measured too neatly, or owned by expectations. It's a simple line that doubles as a strategy for staying alive inside fame: treat the next unfamiliar thing not as threat, but as oxygen.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Jackson, Bo. (2026, January 17). I love going out and doing new things. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-love-going-out-and-doing-new-things-38705/
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Jackson, Bo. "I love going out and doing new things." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-love-going-out-and-doing-new-things-38705/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I love going out and doing new things." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-love-going-out-and-doing-new-things-38705/. Accessed 11 Feb. 2026.



