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I took a lot of things for granted - especially how I treated my body.

Bo Jackson

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Bo Jackson
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: November 30
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American Football Player
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Bessemer
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Vincent Edward Jackson
Vincent Edward Bo Jackson
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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 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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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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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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Don't plan to repent at the 11th hour - you may die at 10:30.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.
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If I miss anything about the sport, it's the camaraderie of old teammates.
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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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Football is easy if you're crazy as hell.
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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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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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