Jim Brown is a retired
American professional
football player who has also made his mark as an
actor and social activist. He is best known for his exceptional and record-setting nine-year career as a
running back for the
NFL Cleveland Browns from 1957 to 1965. He is universally acclaimed as one of the best running backs of all time, and in 2002 was named by
The Sporting News as the greatest professional football player ever. Sportswriter
Bert Randolph Sugar named Brown #1 in his book
The Greatest Athletes of All Time.
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- He told me, 'Make sure when anyone tackles you, he remembers how much it hurts.' He lived by that philosophy and I always followed that advice.