A Quote by Bo Jackson
Whenever I wasn't watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.
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When I'm not training or playing, I'm watching football or watching something football-related on my phone, or about our next rival.
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I got into baseball, and everyone just started calling me a geek, like, 'There's the nerd from Harvard.' Then it took 20 years of working in baseball and me actually leaving and going to football for people to say, 'He's the baseball guy.' So maybe at some point I'll be known as a football guy too.
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