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Whenever I wasn't watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.

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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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I was always the fastest and strongest kid in my school so events like the 100 meter and discus throwing attracted me. I could throw the discus for great distance s without the proper spin and throw technique.
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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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My favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog.
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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'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.
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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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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.
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I've always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.
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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.
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I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.
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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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I was the type of guy that used to get up in the morning and go out and just out run everybody on the field without stretching or warming up or anything.
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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.
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I love going out and doing new things.
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But now in this day and age, people are more prone to go out to try new things to enhance their performance on the field - to enhance their physical appearance.
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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.
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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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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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Don't plan to repent at the 11th hour - you may die at 10:30.
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