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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.

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Bo Jackson
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: November 30
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Vincent Edward Jackson
Vincent Edward Bo Jackson
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The only people I know getting in high places by running their mouth are politicians.
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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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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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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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