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
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.
Everybody does good things, but I'm talking about making major changes in the educational system that would impact an entire race. I'm talking about stopping these young gang members from killing one another. I'm talking about keeping prisons from overflowing.
Certainly, although this is not good news for the central Aroostook County economy because the jobs at MBNA obviously were good jobs and very important to our overall employment picture, I'm not at all discouraged about the possibility of a different type of operation finding that facility suitable for call center usage if the intent of Bank of America is to dispose of the facilities.
Kids today don't have any idea about these tools, or what they were used for. It a good history lesson for them.
We were hoping to get the team right after this tournament. We were hoping some guys would play good and we'd say OK this is our five guys.
That's what we were hoping for, gain a little momentum heading into the Big Ten. We have as good a chance as anybody if our guys play the way they can.
It'll give us a pretty good view on how everyone is playing. We will be able to get a pretty good read on the conference after this weekend.
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 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.
We are trying to see who can perform under those conditions.