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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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Bo Jackson
Age: 62
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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I wanted to stay close enough so mom could see me play - where I could go home if I needed to.
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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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I've always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.
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Back before I injured my hip, I thought going to the gym was for wimps.
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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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Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.
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Don't plan to repent at the 11th hour - you may die at 10:30.
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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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Really, it's not harder to train for them because once baseball starts you play everyday almost.
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It is better to give a lick than receive one.
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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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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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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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