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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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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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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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It is better to give a lick than receive one.
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I took a lot of things for granted - especially how I treated my body.
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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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The only people I know getting in high places by running their mouth are politicians.
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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 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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I am a firm believer in if you can't get it the old fashioned way, you don't need it.
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I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.
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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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Football is easy if you're crazy as hell.
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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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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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I love going out and doing new things.
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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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Back before I injured my hip, I thought going to the gym was for wimps.
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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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My confidence and drive to go play came when I realized how gifted I was at such a young age and how much bigger my build was than the kids my age.
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