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I am a firm believer in if you can't get it the old fashioned way, you don't need it.

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Bo Jackson
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: November 30
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Vincent Edward Jackson
Vincent Edward Bo Jackson
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If I miss anything about the sport, it's the camaraderie of old teammates.
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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.
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I took a lot of things for granted - especially how I treated my body.
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Growing up as a kid, the back of my house faced a little community airport about four or five miles from my house.
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Don't run too fast through life. You only have one.
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Don't plan to repent at the 11th hour - you may die at 10:30.
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The only people I know getting in high places by running their mouth are politicians.
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By doing that and being very competitive, the grown-ups started telling me even back before I started playing organized ball that I was too physical and too advanced for the kids my own age.
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If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.
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Back before I injured my hip, I thought going to the gym was for wimps.
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I love going out and doing new things.
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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.
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Well, back when I was training, probably the only nutritious thing on the market was Gatorade - that's all that we knew.
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I wanted to stay close enough so mom could see me play - where I could go home if I needed to.
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The first game was against Wake Forrest - I'll never forget that game.
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I struck out with two men on base. I was so angry, so frustrated, I turned and without even thinking about it, snapped my bat over my thigh. The bat split right in half. Afterward, reporters asked me if it was the first time I'd ever broken a bat over my thigh. I broke an aluminum bat over my knee in college, I said. (I was just kidding).
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