Jim Brown
Jim Brown
James Nathaniel Brownis a former professional American football player and actor. He is best known for his record-setting nine-year career as a fullback for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football Leaguefrom 1957 through 1965. In 2002, he was named by Sporting News as the greatest professional football player ever...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionFootball Player
Date of Birth17 February 1936
CitySt. Simons, GA
CountryUnited States of America
We certainly haven't given up hope because we see what they can do - their potential. We've got to find a way to transfer that into when the tournament starts.
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.
We just have to take one shot at a time. We have to stay in the present and forget about what has happened and do the best we can every shot.
What I want to do is play roles as a black man, instead of playing black man's roles. You know?
TWA believes that the remains of Flight 800 should be treated like the remains of any other airplane crash and disposed of respectfully once the investigation is concluded.
You have an athletic director who wants to bring us up-to-date,
We are trying to see who can perform under those conditions.
At about 6:30 this morning, we got reports from citizens in the area that there was a green van and a white car chasing each other up and down Central Avenue shooting at each other.
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.
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.
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.
The NFL pension is the worst in the world of business. It's an embarrassment.
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.
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.