Nobody I ever broke bread with, and I see players all the time, talked about using their head running the football. – Jim Brown
Ultimately, a running back has to get rid of tacklers without his blockers being a part of it. – Jim Brown
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
There’s a trend toward anti-heroes now, and I think it goes back to guys like Bogart and Cagney. They seemed to have no compassion, and they were always alone. – Jim Brown
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
I was just a big guy running down with a big, deep pocket and little short stick putting it against my chest. – Jim Brown
I don’t start fights, but sometimes I don’t walk away from them. It hasn’t happened in a long time, but it’s happened, and I regret those times. I should have been more in control of myself, stronger, more adult. – Jim Brown
I’m not pro-owner or pro-player. I am pro-football. I want the game to go on. I want the game to be tough. I don’t want the game to be a killer of our players. – Jim Brown
In anger-management training, they teach you never to hit a person – hit an object. That’s what they teach you. – Jim Brown
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
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
What I want to do is play roles as a black man, instead of playing black man’s roles. You know? – Jim Brown
The need to be cared for is the base of everything. In the penitentiaries, you won’t hear gangbangers and criminals say, ‘No, I don’t want to be cared for by nobody.’ When you care about them, they’ll open up to you. – Jim Brown
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
I think the National Football League needs a new union. The heavyweights of this union are not heavyweights enough. – Jim Brown
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
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
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
Money is lonely anyway. When you got it, people always want it. You don’t want to be used; sometimes you don’t know where a cat is comin’ from. – Jim Brown
I’d like to make one thing very clear: Muhammad Ali loved people, and he had white friend as well as black friends – and the only thing that he hated was discrimination and racism. – Jim Brown
I was an in-between size. I wasn’t tall enough to be a real forward, and I probably didn’t handle the ball well enough to be a point guard. – Jim Brown
I want the violence among young people in this country to stop – particularly gang violence. – Jim Brown
AI don’t make a big thing out of my race. If you try to preach, people give you a little sympathy and then they want to get out of the way. So you don’t preach; you tell the story. – Jim Brown