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
They made it possible for me to open up the ARCC on time, and I bet they make it possible for us to open the stadium on time for the football and soccer teams.
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.
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.
The typical elected official is constantly surrounded by crisis. We don't act, we react. We don't typically look at the big picture. You need time to think in the big picture. It is hard for us to do.
It's not a criticism of the Salvation Army. I did the best I could.
That is real important because it is relatively expensive to operate transit so we need to be sure we are balancing the available funding with a real need for service.
I'm a fan of NASCAR, in a certain kind of way.
It's impossible to tell until they come in.
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.
We went from third to eighth or ninth real quick.
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.
What I want to do is play roles as a black man, instead of playing black man's roles. You know?
During the tournament we didn't perform the way we should.