Quotes by Jim Brown - Page 3

Nelson Mandela just died, so that says so much because it's a tremendously powerful and great man who was very sensitive. Loved all people, forgave his enemies, and showed the world how to stand up and do it the right way.
Jim Brown / Football Player
Died
Nelson
Powerful
Right Way
Sensitive
Stand
Great Man World
All People
Loved
Enemies
Forgave
Great Man
Mandela
Says
Stand Up
Tremendously
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I would love to have a role with the Browns. I think that's what every ex-player would like to do most of all: to be a contributor to the success of an organization that he was a player that brought a certain amount of success.
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Amount
Organization
Brought
Contributor
Role
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When I think of greatness, I think of guys like Earl Campbell and Gale Sayers and Walter Payton, and these individuals who, it's unanimous they're going to make a difference - when they're coming out of college, there's no doubt.
Jim Brown / Football Player
College
Doubt
Gale
Greatness
No Doubt
Campbell
Coming
Difference
Earl
Guys
Individuals
Make A Difference
Unanimous
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When you think of the sacrifices our firefighters make, think about the service of soldiers in foreign lands and listen to their lives, you have to be careful that whatever you do, don't cast a shadow on what these great people do.
Jim Brown / Football Player
Be Careful
Careful
Great People
Shadow
Firefighters
Lands
Sacrifices
Soldiers
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You cannot get me to be disloyal to a friend. You just can't do it. Loyalty is a part of what I live by. I didn't say I was going to be loyal to my friend because he was right. I'm going to be loyal to my friend because he's my friend.
Jim Brown / Football Player
Disloyal
Loyal
Just
Because
Me
Get
He
Cannot
Friend
Part
Say
My Friend
Right
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Money has changed today's black athletes. Those who have the ability as African men to bring a change in a community that so desperately needs it are concentrating only on their own careers, some charities and how much money they can make.
Jim Brown / Football Player
Men
Athlete
Careers
Concentrating
African
Athletes
Charities
Desperately
How Much Money
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It's too bad about 'Dark of the Sun.' It was really about Tshombe. When I read the script, I thought it was going to be a political movie, and I thought we might even have a hassle. But the director simplified it to brutality and bad taste.
Jim Brown / Football Player
Bad Taste
Hassle
Sun
Taste
Simplified
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The three greatest people in my life as a young person were white, my high school superintendent, my high school coach and a - I graduate in Manhasset High, Kenneth Molloy who's a mentor to yours truly.I'm not a person that really deal in color.
Jim Brown / Football Player
Color
School
White
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Boxing is a great example of it, but in football, sometimes you're taking greater hits than boxers. When you have one man going full speed against another man, and those heads are colliding, it's just the fact of science you're going to have results.
Jim Brown / Football Player
Science
Another Man
Boxers
Example
Football
Greater
Results
Speed
Full
Great Example
Heads
Hits
Taking
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I came from Long Island, so I had a lot of experience at the stick. I played in junior high school, then I played in high school. The technical aspect of the game was my forte. I had all that experience, then I had strength and I was in good condition.
Jim Brown / Football Player
Aspect
Forte
Games
Islands
Junior High
Long Island
School
Condition
Island
Junior
Junior High School
Stick
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I run a program called Amer-I-Can. We've taught in prisons, schools, juvenile facilities and we teach in the community. We have the greatest record from the standpoint of dealing with grade point averages, disciplinary action and attendance in schools.
Jim Brown / Football Player
Action
Attendance
Juvenile
Program
Standpoint
Taught
Teach
Dealing
Disciplinary
Facilities
Grade
Record
Prisons
Schools
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There have been so few decent films involving Negroes that right away everybody expects every film to do everything. But when you make a flick, there are maybe two things you're trying to put into that flick. You can put the other things in another time.
Jim Brown / Football Player
Another Time
Decent
Involving
Expects
Flick
Right Away
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I don't teach kids to be No. 1. Organizations and people that tell you you have to be No. 1; that's not it. You don't have to be No. 1. What I teach is to be as good as you can be. Use what you have and be as good as you can be. That's all you can do, anyway.
Jim Brown / Football Player
Teach
Good Use People
Anyway
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Everybody does good things, but I'm talking about making major changes in the educational system that would impact an entire race. I'm talking about stopping these young gang members from killing one another. I'm talking about keeping prisons from overflowing.
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Educational
Gang
Good Things
Members
Stopping
Overflowing
Prisons
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Obama was elected by the people, and I was glad that barrier was broken down. I did, along with my wife, campaign for him in Ohio because that was a key state. If I had to say does he rate an 'A' or does he rate a 'D,' it would be very difficult. I give him a 'C.'
Jim Brown / Football Player
Broken
Glad
Ohio
Rate
Obama
Barrier
By The People
Campaign
Elected
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I don't teach kids to be number 1. Organizations and people that tell you you have to be number 1; that's not it. You don't have to be number 1. What I teach is to be as good as you can be. Use what you have and be as good as you can be. That's all you can do, anyway.
Jim Brown / Football Player
Kids
Football
Organization
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I could never understand why they did that to Barry Sanders in Detroit. I know that's one of the reasons why he retired, because they took him out on third down and let someone else catch the ball. I thought they must be out of their mind because Barry is such a threat.
Jim Brown / Football Player
Detroit
Retired
Ball
Mind Never Know
Barry
Catch
Reasons
Third
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America is a great country. It has a lot of work to do. The bottom line is it's easy to talk; it's easy to have the media pick up on something, and it's hard to have the patience to put something in place you can build on that will make sure each citizen has their equal rights.
Jim Brown / Football Player
America
Bottom
Bottom Line
Country
Easy
Equal
Equal Rights
Great Country
Hard
Media
Rights
Build
Talk
Sure
Citizen
Each
Line
Place
Put
Pick
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My biggest problem was to get the coaches to understand that I was a runner, and I wanted to prepare myself based upon the calisthenics I did and get myself ready. For example, I used my forearm when I ran the ball, so I didn't want to do pushups because I wanted my forearms to heal.
Jim Brown / Football Player
Coaches
Example
Heal
Ran
Ready
Ball
Biggest Problem
For Example
Prepare
Runner
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The social issues outside of football are not as defined as they were earlier, when integration took place and certain rights were legislated. The Civil Rights movement is over. Individuals can buy homes wherever they want, travel first class wherever they want, eat wherever they want.
Jim Brown / Football Player
Home
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Movement
Defined
First Class
Football
Integration
Rights
Social Issues
Civil
Earlier
Homes
Individuals
Rights Movement
Wherever
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'The Autobiography of Malcolm X.' I've used it to demonstrate racial attitudes to people who I thought needed a better understanding of all human beings. Malcolm was not a racist. He was not looking for revenge. He realized that kindness and goodness did not come from any one kind of person.
Jim Brown / Football Player
Autobiography
Goodness
Human Beings
Needed
Revenge
Understanding
Used
Person
Come
Looking
Did
Attitudes
Beings
Better Understanding
Demonstrate
Human
Malcolm
Racial
Realized
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About the state of black America, I've been working on that for many, many years. And [Donald Trump] said certain things in his early days about wanting to do something about it. We have a lot of violence in our neighborhoods now. We need education. And we need jobs. Is what I'm trying to say.
Jim Brown / Football Player
Jobs
America
Years
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NASCAR stepped up their safety concepts, and I think the drivers feel NASCAR is doing everything that can be done. So we are a little behind NASCAR in that respect. Someone in NASCAR realized there were certain things that could be done to make it safer. The same thing has to happen in football.
Jim Brown / Football Player
Concepts
Drivers
Nascar
Certain Things
Realized
Safer
Same Thing
Stepped
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Even though the money is great and the fame is great, you still have a lot of disenfranchised young men that are participating in the NFL that are not very happy. A lot of them are very bitter. A lot them are very angry. So many of them have had no fathers and no home life, and basically, no education.
Jim Brown / Football Player
Home
Men
Angry
Disenfranchised
Fame
Father
Home Life
Nfl
Participating
Life Education Money
Life Education Home
Fathers
Young Men
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I understood because of his personality. [Donald Trump] is different. And for years the presidency has been like a smooth ride and nothing really dramatic has happened. But with him every day is full of energy. Things are going the happen. And today when I met him, it was like meeting a different person.
Jim Brown / Football Player
Personality
Today
Years
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Nobody I ever broke bread with - and I see players all the time - talked about using their head running the football. I've seen Barry Sanders and Eric Dickerson and Marcus Allen and Franco Harris, and we've all been together - we were all together at the Super Bowl - and no one talked about using their head.
Jim Brown / Football Player
Running
Bread
Broke
Football
Super Bowl
Together
Allen
Barry
Nobody
Seen
Bowl
Harris
Head
Super
Talked
Using
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People think that coaches are always right, but it's difficult to teach a runner how to run, because every runner is different. You have to have an understanding of how to assist what that runner has, so they know how to assist what you have without taking away your special ability, because you're not like anybody else.
Jim Brown / Football Player
Running
Coaches
People
Special
Teach
Thinking
Understanding
Always Your People
Anybody Else
Assist
Difficult People Always
Runner
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Concussions have brought the consciousness to the problem, but I think the problem is football-related injuries, period, and the lack of support from the league of those players who have suffered those injuries. The denial factor has been unbelievable. I'm here because I'm a fighter to try to bring attention to this fact.
Jim Brown / Football Player
Attention
Consciousness
Denial
League
Unbelievable
Brought
Suffered
Period
Factor
Injuries
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There is no excuse for violence. There is never a justification for anyone to impose themselves on someone else. And it will always be incorrect when it comes to a man and a woman, regardless of what might have happened. You need to be man enough to take the blow. That is always the best way. Do not put your hands on a woman.
Jim Brown / Football Player
Best
Best Way
Blow
Enough
Excuse
Hands
Happened
Justification
Might
Violence
Will
Always Enough Man
Best Always Enough
Always
Anyone
Man
Never
Best Man Way
Woman
Take
Best Man Always
Else
No Excuse
Impose
Incorrect
Put
Regardless
Themselves
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If you help disabled children, it's very appealing. If you help kids with cancer, those are the things you get credit for and those things are beautiful. But when it comes to stopping violence or really putting the time into rebuilding schools, that's just a different kind of project. It takes more than just money to do that.
Jim Brown / Football Player
Cancer
Credit
Disabled
Rebuilding
Stopping
Violence
Appealing
Different Kind
Project
Putting
Schools
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I never had a father, really. My great-grandmother raised me. But I was in this country where I got help from people that were not of my same color. So when I come out of the box, I don't come out of the box as racial. I look for good people, and people that will be like-minded and help me try to do good for other human beings.
Jim Brown / Football Player
Good People
Good Look Father
Racial
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One of the things that I've always not liked is the modern players have always concentrated on dancing in the end zone and BSing when serious things were going on in this country that needed to be changed. So my opinion is that when these young people stand up and risk their careers, that's a good sign for everything and all of us.
Jim Brown / Football Player
Careers
Zone
Good Always People
Concentrated
Good Country People
Good Sign
In The End
Stand Up
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When Kennedy could not get the civil rights bill passed - and he was the big liberal - Lyndon Johnson came in and it got passed, and he was the conservative and the southerner. So sometimes in politics, to get something done, it takes a special kind of knowledge and a special kind of person, but it doesn't always follow the party lines.
Jim Brown / Football Player
Knowledge
Civil Rights
Conservative
Johnson
Lines
Party
Rights
Special
Bill
Civil
Follow
Liberal
Lyndon
Lyndon Johnson
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I recognize the inequities certain cultures have to go through. I understand the history of slavery. I know all those things. But I'm not a victim. I can vote, I can participate, I can invest my money, I can invest my time, and that's what I'm doing. I'm not working for anybody. I'm not making any money doing what I'm doing. I'm doing it because someone did it for me.
Jim Brown / Football Player
Culture
Slavery
Vote
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John Lewis has great history as a civil rights fighter.As a young man, he was one of the guys out there who was leading the parades during the [Martin Luther] King [Jr.] era. So, we all respect his history. But then I hear him crying the blues about Mr. [Donald] Trump and saying he's an illegitimate president, I take offense to that. If it's illegitimate, why is he going on?
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Kings
Men
Rights
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I'm not a person that really deal in color. I recognize the inequities that certain cultures have to go through. I understand the history of slavery and all those things. But I'm not a victim. I can vote, I can participant. I can invest my money. I can invest my time. And that's what I'm doing. I'm not working for anybody. I'm not making any money doing what I'm doing. I'm doing it because someone did it for me.
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Color
Culture
Slavery
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Showing weakness will encourage your opponents. It inspires them. It encourages them to hit harder. To come faster. But when you don't show any fear, or when you don't show any hurt, you have the opportunity to discourage your opponent. You discourage your enemies. The bottom line is, if you think properly, you don't even have to think about all of that. All you have to think about is that guy across from me is human, and so am I. And he'll never out-work me. He'll never out-think me. And if you can't out-work me, and you can't out-think me, you'll never beat me.
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Opportunity
Hurt
Thinking
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