Jim Brown Quotes

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Jim Brown

Profession : Athlete

Birth : February 17, 1936

Nobody I ever broke bread with, and I see players all the time, talked about using their head running the football.

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 am forever a Cleveland Brown.

Jim Brown

I listened to my kids talk about me as a parent, and I learned about things they wished I'd done and said. And I wished that I had done more of those things.

Jim Brown

Malcolm X was a man among men.

Jim Brown

I have a theory. An audience doesn't need to get wrapped up in blackness every time they see a Negro actor. And a movie doesn't have to be about race just because there's a Negro in it.

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

When I'm on a picture, I have two bosses - the director and the producer. My co-star is not my boss.

Jim Brown

When you have a problem, rules don't solve your problem. It's caring and education.

Jim Brown

'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

I think the National Football League needs a new union. The heavyweights of this union are not heavyweights enough.

Jim Brown

I loved the game. We played because we loved it.

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

I like tight bodies and pretty faces. You bring in Methuselah, if she's got a tight body and a pretty face, that's all right, too.

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

The power is between your ears.The power is in your heart.

Jim Brown

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

God ain't got nothing to do with winning a damn football game.

Jim Brown

Martin Luther King was a misguided leader. He worked to be recognized as the leader of black America when what black America needs isn't a leader, it is education.

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