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==Personal life and death== Away from Walkersteel and Blackburn Rovers, Walker invested in property development in and around Blackburn.{{Citation needed|date=September 2016}} He sponsored [[First Tower United F.C.|First Tower United]], and Jersey Rugby Club after moving to [[St Helier]] in 1974.<ref name="Glanville">{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/aug/19/guardianobituaries.football | work=The Guardian| location=London | title=Jack Walker | first=Brian | last=Glanville | access-date=2010-05-05}}</ref> Walker's primary motto in life and most famous quote was "think big".<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.brfcs.com/jack-walker/jack-walker-11th-anniversary-tribute/ | work=BRFCS | title=Jack Walker Tribute | date=2011-08-17 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160301144710/http://www.brfcs.com/jack-walker/jack-walker-11th-anniversary-tribute/ | archive-date=1 March 2016}}</ref> On 17 August 2000, Walker died at 71 from cancer.<ref>{{cite news| title = Jack Walker dies aged 71 | url = http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/6069883.Jack_Walker_dies_aged_71/ | work =Lancashire Telegraph| date =2000-08-18| access-date =2016-02-27}}</ref>
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