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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
Athletics Competitor
Banker
Baseball Player
Football Player
Bessemer
Alabama
Vincent Edward Jackson
Vincent Edward Bo Jackson
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Older
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Five
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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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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 always an Alabama fan growing up, but when the Alabama recruiter told me I would probably not be able to play until the end of my sophomore year, or the beginning of my junior year.
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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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Don't run too fast through life. You only have one.
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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 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 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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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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