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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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Bo Jackson
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: November 30
Actor
American Football Player
Athletics Competitor
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Baseball Player
Football Player
Bessemer
Alabama
Vincent Edward Jackson
Vincent Edward Bo Jackson
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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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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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I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.
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It is better to give a lick than receive one.
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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 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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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 took a lot of things for granted - especially how I treated my body.
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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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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 guarantee you that's what Jeff Gordon does. He uses everything the fans throw at him to stoke his fire and it drives him to be better at what he does.
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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 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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