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I've always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.

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Bo Jackson
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: November 30
Actor
American Football Player
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Football Player
Bessemer
Alabama
Vincent Edward Jackson
Vincent Edward Bo Jackson
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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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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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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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