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I loved the game. We played because we loved it.
Written by Jim Brown
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.
Written by Jim Brown
I was just a big guy running down with a big, deep pocket and little short stick putting it against my chest.
Written by Jim Brown
I'm not interested in trying to work on people's perceptions. I am who I am, and if you don't take the time to learn about that, then your perception is going to be your problem.
Written by Jim Brown
Nobody I ever broke bread with, and I see players all the time, talked about using their head running the football.
Written by Jim Brown
I think the National Football League needs a new union. The heavyweights of this union are not heavyweights enough.
Written by 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.
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I'm a very sensitive person. I do like to be respected. I'm very loyal. I like it to be a two-way street.
Written by Jim Brown
When I'm on a picture, I have two bosses - the director and the producer. My co-star is not my boss.
Written by 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.
Written by Jim Brown
What I want to do is play roles as a black man, instead of playing black man's roles. You know?
Written by 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.
Written by Jim Brown
When you go out on a football field, you are responsible for taking care of yourself. The more rules you get, the less players truly take care of themselves.
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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.
Written by Jim Brown
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.
Written by Jim Brown
When you have a problem, rules don't solve your problem. It's caring and education.
Written by Jim Brown
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.
Written by Jim Brown
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.
Written by 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.
Written by 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.
Written by Jim Brown
A liberal will cut off your leg so he can hand you a crutch.
Written by 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.
Written by Jim Brown
If you truly believe something, and it's incorrect, that doesn't mean you don't have integrity.
Written by Jim Brown
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.
Written by 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.
Written by 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.
Written by Jim Brown
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.
Written by Jim Brown
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.
Written by Jim Brown
The NFL pension is the worst in the world of business. It's an embarrassment.
Written by Jim Brown
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.
Written by Jim Brown

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