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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: 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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Back before I injured my hip, I thought going to the gym was for wimps.
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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 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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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've taken up golf in the past five or six years, and most of the time there aren't too many people out there that can drive a ball further than I can.
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I took a lot of things for granted - especially how I treated my body.
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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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Whenever I wasn't watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.
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The only people I know getting in high places by running their mouth are politicians.
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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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My favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog.
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The first game was against Wake Forrest - I'll never forget that game.
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If I miss anything about the sport, it's the camaraderie of old teammates.
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If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.
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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 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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You have a lot of people on the run and really don't have time to sit down and eat a balanced meal.
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If my mother put on a helmet and shoulder pads and a uniform that wasn't the same as the one I was wearing, I'd run over her if she was in my way. And I love my mother.
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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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I have no problem with my hips - I can still do the things that I used to do. I can run, I'm just not the fastest person on the field anymore.
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