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Wikipedia Summary for Paul Brown
Paul Eugene Brown (September 7, 1908 – August 5, 1991) was an American football coach and executive in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) and National Football League (NFL). Brown was both the co-founder and first coach of the Cleveland Browns, a team named after him, and later played a role in founding the Cincinnati Bengals. His teams won seven league championships in a professional coaching career spanning 25 seasons.
Brown began his coaching career at Severn School in 1931 before becoming the head football coach at Massillon Washington High School in Massillon, Ohio, where he grew up. His high school teams lost only 10 games in 11 seasons. He was then hired at Ohio State University and coached the school to its first national football championship in 1942. After World War II, he became head coach of the Browns, who won all four AAFC championships before joining the NFL in 1950. Brown coached the Browns to three NFL championships – in 1950, 1954 and 1955 – but was fired in January 1963 amid a power struggle with team owner Art Modell. In 1968, Brown co-founded and was the first coach of the Bengals. He retired from coaching in 1975 but remained the Bengals' team president until his death in 1991. The Bengals named their home stadium Paul Brown Stadium in honor of Brown. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1967.
Brown is credited with a number of American football innovations. He was the first coach to use game film to scout opponents, hire a full-time staff of assistants, and test players on their knowledge of a playbook. He invented the modern face mask, the practice squad and the draw play. He also played a role in breaking professional football's color barrier, bringing the first African-Americans to play pro football in the modern era onto his teams. Despite these accomplishments, Brown was not universally liked. He was strict and controlling, which often brought him into conflict with players who wanted a greater say in play-calling. These disputes, combined with Brown's failure to consult Modell on major personnel decisions, led to his firing as the Browns' coach in 1963.
The only thing that counts is your dedication to the game. You run on your own fuel; it comes from within you.
Yet what great merit is to be found in these pillagers, plunderers, and cut-throat conquerors? unless indeed it consist of their temerity, cruelty, avarice, and ambition?
You just never know what's around the next corner in life or business or anything.
Coaches who scrimmage all the time don't know what to practice.
The test of a quarterback is where his team finishes.
A winner never whines.
I enjoy winning and very much dislike losing- but I did not allow either of them to obsess me. I was a silent loser, believing that if you won you said little, and if you lost you said even less.
We don't have mad cow disease. We probably never will have mad cow disease, and therefore, it's a non-problem in the United States.
My theory with the auctions has been to try to make them like a party, like a social event. If people are having a good time, talking with their friends, they're much more likely to bid.
I'm not a big TV watcher, but I know that Discovery is a teaching network. And they've been so awesome to me, I love those people.
I can't stand it when a player whines to me or his teammates or his wife or the writers or anyone else. A whiner is almost always wrong. A winner never whines.
If you think you have a good idea, get into the marketplace as quickly as you can, using as little money as possible, and see what happens.
I like Modernism. I grew up around these sort of eclectic, heavily carved, baroque, rococo, highly ornamented styles that were in my life from the time that I was a child until now in my business life. So I like clean, straight, minimalist lines.
Feathered with hoarfrost, skeletal trees loom closer; fog shrouded arches.
Football is a game of errors. The team that makes the fewest errors in a game usually wins.
What we have currently available is what we have available.
You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat.
The key to winning is poise under stress.
When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.