Best quotes by Jim Brown on Football

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ I don't want football to not be played, but I would like the sophistication brought forth to take care of those who need to be taken care of and to take the precaution, at the sacrifice of winning, to take care of people.

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• ‟ 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.

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

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• ‟ I think the National Football League needs a new union. The heavyweights of this union are not heavyweights enough.

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• ‟ 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