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He became The Boz, a colorful and controversial character that was manufactured, he said, not self-made.<br>He simply followed the advice of his agent, the late Gary Wichard, who at one point also represented Mark Gastineau, the once shy and unassuming kid from tiny Eagar Round Valley High who went on to become the flamboyant star of the New York Sack Exchange with the Jets.<br> Gary used to use Mark as a guilt point for me, Bosworth said. He told me, Mark never reached his full potential because he wasn t listening to me. Gary wanted a superstar that would transcend sports and make it to the movies and be an international success.<br> That wasn t who I was, but that s who Gary was and that s what Gary wanted. Not to dog him or anything, but that s who he was. 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It was my own arrogance. <br>Bosworth looks around the league today and sees plenty of arrogance, too. It comes in different shapes and sizes and some of it, he contends, just might be manufactured onto players by others just as his Boz image was created for him.<br>It s an easy trap in which to fall, he said. Athletes are told at a young age what to do and how to do it and they are made to follow along an assembly line.<br> Maybe it starts with your father and then it s a coach, then another one, and another one and then, somebody else is telling you what you re going to do, he said. You fall into a program. ...<br> And so you kind of follow because you don t want to make a mistake, not knowing that the whole thing you re doing is mistake, mistake, mistake. <br>Reach The Heat Index at bob.mcmanaman@arizonarepublic.com. Follow him on Twitter @azbobbymac and listen to him every Monday at 5:30 p.m. on AZ Sports Talk with Roc and Manuch on KDUS (1060).