Ray Brown Quotes (47 Quotes)

Nobody would have picked me to play 20 years. I wouldn't have picked myself to play 20 years. I do know there's a lot of my ex-teammates sitting at home watching, saying, 'Can you believe Ray Brown is still playing football' I might even have family members saying, 'Why is Uncle Ray playing He needs to get out of there.

I'm pretty sure this is it. I'm not going to stamp that in concrete, but I don't think I want to play. I've had enough football. I've enjoyed it. And when I say I've had enough, it doesn't mean I don't like it. I've had enough with a big smile and a lot of happiness, with some pleasurable moments.

Even if your house does go up 20,000 in one year, a lot of that will have to pay for your commission. If you have a 300,000 house and 5 percent commission, say bye-bye to 15,000.

I guess I've had a lot of moments to add up to 20 years. I've been pretty fortunate.

Financing may be somewhat faster because lenders aren't processing as many loans. You will get better service and more attention this time of year.

We had to do a lot of rehearsals to get it so that it was playable. What it did was make you practice. That's good for any musician to have that kind of pressure. It brings things out of you that might not come out if you don't have to reach for something all the time.

He just wished me good luck. For him to give me that letter, man, that just made me feel good.

A huge amount of prospective buyers never ask why a seller is selling, but it immediately determines their level of motivation. You can get a real deal from a person who needs to move to another part of the country pending a new job, for example. Because they have an agenda of their own, a seller in need is a friend indeed.

They did a great job of scheming. I was surprised at some of the looks we got. They filled (the gaps) a different way with their linebackers that we didn't anticipate. I don't think we did a good job of adjusting.

People are trading distance for dollars.

A couple of weeks ago, I had a few bad days in practice. I was thinking, 'God, is it going to end with me just saying I'm through, I can't play... in a Thursday practice' I just thought, 'I'm sore, I'm tired, I can't make it to Friday.' And sure enough, I come back Friday and have a good day.

This gives us an opportunity to sort of take care of it ourselves. We're counting on ourselves.

Pilates reveals your weaknesses. If one side of your body is stronger than the other, you know it pretty quickly. You need to correct that, and to do so you have to work at it.

A house doesn't have as much elasticity as your life.

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.

One, he had injuries two, he didn't have the success that he had previously in Jacksonville, and, three, he was benched, ... Put that in your tank as motivation.

Don't try to second-guess what a new buyer would want. You'll guess wrong nine times out of 10. It's better to let the price reflect that you have an older kitchen or bathroom.

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.

Owning usually makes more sense than renting -- but that's assuming you're prepared to stay in your house for at least two to three years. You need at least that much time to recoup all of the expenses of going in and going out, ... Home Buying for Dummies.

I thought we had the potential to do something. It looks like we're heading that way. It's not all over, said and done, but it's all in front of us, and I'm glad to be a part of a team that's playing for something in December.

There's no TV in our rooms. And this morning somebody hid the coffee.

Well, I think that I've been learning how to, attempting to learn how to write for a trio. I've sort of taken a page out of Duke Ellington's book. I watched Ellington over the years and it didn't matter who got in that band, he found out what they could do good and then he wrote for them.

I will have a song that I'm in love with for a couple of months and then I'll go to something else. That's just constantly changing. And sometimes I will go back to old one that I haven't heard for a long time.

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.

They played so good it was frightening. And I, of course, being young, was in awe of everything that was going on and rightly so. I mean, it was too good to believe.

You have to be able to listen. You have got to listen to the singer and give them what they need to sound good.

Actually, I was starting to feel like my abilities were best suited at tackle, because I'm not as fast as I used to be. As you get older, it's a leg-strength game. I'm able to sort of trick the team and trick this league that I can play inside. That's basically what I got by with - a little guile, a little veteran savvy, and also leaning on my teammates.

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.

We finally get an opportunity where it's in our hands. We don't have to count on anyone else.

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.

There's simply no substitute for interviewing several potential listing agents before you hire one. If you notice that the agent is doing all the talking and none of the listening, move on to the next.

They talked to me about that issue, and I really remember that. 1986 was the steroid year, and here we are 20 years later and that issue is still alive.

I only really trust organic food.

A 'For Sale' sign in your yard during the holidays is like a 'kick me' sign. You are telling buyers you are a distressed seller.

For the seller, this is usually the worst time to sell,

Coming down off crack is like the worst depression. The worst.

Last year we had to really try to disguise it because we were limited in what we could do down the field, and there was no cushion for the receiver there.

You're giving the opposing defense confidence.

I know the biggest number for me being in this 20th year isn't how big I am, or how many times I've bench-pressed 225. It's that I'm 42 years old.

Oh, yeah, you can tell we've got defenses guessing a little bit now. We hit the slip screen a short pattern toward the middle of the field out of two different formations Sunday, and both times got a chunk of yards off it. That's a play we've been able to

They have the best of both worlds. It serves as a destination resort and at the same time, day in and day out, serves the local customer.

The best time to buy a home is always five years ago.

It might be nice to be in the league 20 years. It may be significant. But I can't stop and say, 'Look at this, let me gloat a little bit.' Then I'll get my butt handed to me.

I'm satisfied, I really am. I leave this game with so much. I've taken so much. Now it's my time to try to give something back to somebody else, to give some time to my family and give some time to some charitable organizations in my community.

Well, jazz is to me, a complete lifestyle. It's bigger than a word. It's a much bigger force than just something that you can say. It's something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live.

It's going to be important to set the tempo in these football games because we have to establish some sort of pace, and we did a good job of that this past Sunday, how we came out and ran the football and really put some pressure on the defense. And our defense, I think, really fed off that. I think our team this past week really felt connected in that we fed off each other and really got into a good flow.

We have to address it, ... It has to become an issue, not just from a player perspective, but also from management's perspective, because it becomes a workplace issue. Are we doing everything necessary for the people who play this game to be successful and healthy Are we putting them at any kind of risk And I think on the whole this league puts player health and player safety at a premium, and this will be another area where we start tightening the bolts and looking deeper into what type of solutions are out there.