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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: 62
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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Football is easy if you're crazy as hell.
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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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But now in this day and age, people are more prone to go out to try new things to enhance their performance on the field - to enhance their physical appearance.
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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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The only people I know getting in high places by running their mouth are politicians.
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The first game was against Wake Forrest - I'll never forget that game.
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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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If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.
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My favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog.
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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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I love going out and doing new things.
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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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I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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