Ray Brown
Ray Brown
Grammy Award-winning jazz bassist who was inducted into the Jazz Hall Of Fame in 2003.
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBassist
Date of Birth13 October 1926
CityPittsburgh, PA
CountryUnited States of America
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I'm honored, and absolutely floored, by this. I know some of the members are guys like Doc Blanchard, Dizzy Dean and Walter Payton. I got a call from (Hall of Fame publicist) Glen Waddle and I remember telling him, 'Are you kidding me?' I had to sit down.
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You know what? There shouldn't be any two-a-days, ... There should probably be two preseason games, and then we should just go play football. Guys are in shape pretty much.
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I don't want to be around the ball unless I'm recovering it. I have no problem with not touching the ball. I don't want to run with the football. . . . They tackle guys with that thing.
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It's a sad and melancholy day, but at the same time, it's a wonderful reunion. It was great to see everyone. It's hard to articulate, but when a man like coach Vaught takes all these guys under his wing, and helps make them better people, he's really accomplished something.
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Something baked. Chicken or fish or pork. I have to take care of myself, eat like a guy in my 40s -- I just happen to be in football. My wife doesn't fry a lot of food. I love fresh tomatoes, broccoli, corn. My two-year-old loves corn, and I agree. I probably should take vitamins but I don't. I get my vitamins the old-fashioned way -- from fruits and vegetables.
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Coach Gibbs is not satisfied. He probably wants to prove to some of the guys that he still has it; he's still motivated. That's important. We'll get it done.
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We've got to win time of possession. We've got to figure out real quick where their guys are going and how they're going to play us.
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I went up to his [Hank Jones'] house and there were four guys there: Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, and Max Roach. Not a bad place to be. Scared shitless, but a nice place to be on my second day in New York.
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The guy wears an unbelievable bull's-eye on his chest for the players in a sense he's always gonna say it's his fault. And I'll tell you, it's not always the case. Players make mistakes, whether we want to admit it or not.
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I've never seen anyone play with two broken thumbs.
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There's a formula to this and somehow we've tended to get away from it, and it caused us to lose six ballgames. But if we can maintain this next week, we've got a good chance of winning.
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We had several football players on that team. Eagle Day, Billy Kinard, Eddie Crawford. Back in that time, the various coaches did not demand 100 percent of your time to a specific sport.
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