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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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Bo Jackson
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: November 30
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Vincent Edward Jackson
Vincent Edward Bo Jackson
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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 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 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'm the type of person, I cross the bridges once I get to 'em. I don't try to plan my life three, four months in advance, because you don't know if tomorrow's promised to you.
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