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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: 61
Born: 1962
Born: November 30
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Bessemer
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Vincent Edward Jackson
Vincent Edward Bo Jackson
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I have been a fan all my life, but now I have been out of football for over 10 years, and out of baseball for a little over six years and I don't go to games.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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Football is easy if you're crazy as hell.
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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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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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If I miss anything about the sport, it's the camaraderie of old teammates.
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I'm the type of person, I cross the bridges once I get to 'em. I don't try to plan my life three, four months in advance, because you don't know if tomorrow's promised to you.
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The first game was against Wake Forrest - I'll never forget that game.
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I've always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.
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Really, it's not harder to train for them because once baseball starts you play everyday almost.
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My favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog.
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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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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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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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Don't plan to repent at the 11th hour - you may die at 10:30.
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