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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 -
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
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Nobody is going to tell me Marshawn Lynch can't run. He's strong as an ox.
Jim Brown -
Michael Jordan brings millions of dollars when he shows up in an arena. Since money is how we judge people, he's very valuable. But while that's happening, Rome is burning within the black community.
Jim Brown -
Education, family, character, intelligence, humility, okay? These are the things that make a culture live.
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.
Jim Brown -
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 -
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
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I would never try to motivate anyone to follow me. I would motivate him to follow certain principles.
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God ain't got nothing to do with winning a damn football game.
Jim Brown -
In a perfect world, I don't think any man should slap anyone.
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 -
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.
Jim Brown -
Money is not God, and human dignity is very important.
Jim Brown
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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 -
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 -
The NFL pension is the worst in the world of business. It's an embarrassment.
Jim Brown -
The so-called incorrigibles were not the way people said they were. I found a lot of character in some of these people.
Jim Brown -
I know a lot of kids that if you don't know how to deal with them, you lose them. They don't come ready-made.
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
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Ultimately, a running back has to get rid of tacklers without his blockers being a part of it.
Jim Brown -
The funny thing about cinema is, usually when they do a story that has African Americans in it, there always has to be a white guy who's the savior.
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.
Jim Brown -
I am forever a Cleveland Brown.
Jim Brown