Jim Brown Football Quotes & Sayings

It's grossly unfair to judge Walter Payton solely on the yards he gains. He is a complete football player, better than Jim Brown, better than O.J. Simpson. — Jim Finks

I'd rather play lacrosse six days a week and football on the seventh. — Jim Brown

I'm not pro-owner or pro-player. I am pro-football. I want the game to go on. I want the game to be tough. I don't want the game to be a killer of our players. — Jim Brown

no doubt, the early traumatic shocks that young hardy brown experienced had a permanent impact on his future development and capacity to deal with the real world.... the years with the mighty mites within the orphanage setting, a term that we seldom see in modern society, provided him with a safe and non-threatening enclave with which to develop. certainly, the competitive, action-oriented game of football, as meshed with positive team experiences, added to the supportive culture. — Jim Dent

I think the National Football League needs a new union. The heavyweights of this union are not heavyweights enough. — Jim Brown

I think the greatest all-around athlete ever was Jim Brown. He played lacrosse, basketball and ran track at Syracuse. He played professional football for the Browns. — Will McDonough

I had a choice to be lazy or lean - if I hadn't changed, thing probably would catch up with me. — Jim Brown

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. — Jim Brown

I could run 200 yards at a stretch, I could duck between players, I felt free to make plays that suited me best. It wasn't like football then and basketball today, where coaches tell you what foot to put down. — Jim Brown

Make sure when anyone tackles you he remembers how much it hurts. — Jim Brown

The social issues outside of football are not as defined as they were earlier, when integration took place and certain rights were legislated. The Civil Rights movement is over. Individuals can buy homes wherever they want, travel first class wherever they want, eat wherever they want. — Jim Brown

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. — Jim Brown

Nobody I ever broke bread with, and I see players all the time, talked about using their head running the football. — Jim Brown

When I started, there weren't any arenas. There was football fields, but they would only hold three or four or five hundred people at the most ... We played a lot of high school auditoriums and things like that - a lot of churches ... but boy, it has changed. — Jim Ed Brown