Your Top 10 Sports Figures of All Time

[Executor]

What are your Top 10 most beloved sports figures of all time, the athletes you rooted for and admired no matter what all (or certain part of) your life, both current and retired?

Mine would be:
1) Kevin Garnett (USA, basketball)
2) Ronnie O'Sullivan (England, snooker)
3) Patrick Roy (Canada, hockey)
4) Nigel Mansell (England, F1 racing)
5) Andrew Luck (USA, football)
6) Jay Cutler (USA, football)
7) Robby Anderson (USA, football)
8) Gary Neville (England, soccer [bleh])
9) Andrew Higginson (England, snooker)
10) Sidney Crosby (Canada, hockey)

Honorable mentions:
Michaela Shiffrin (USA, skiing)
Jens Weissflog (Germany, ski jumping)
Shae Lynn Bourne & Victor Kraatz (Canada, figure skating)
Michael White (Wales, snooker)
Pete Samprass (USA, tennis)
Daniela Hantuchova (Slovakia, tennis)
Michael Phelps (USA, swimming)
...and the list could go on and on, really...

[Bard]

Re: Your Top 10 Sports Figures of All Time

1) David Ortiz (MLB)
2) Barry Bonds (MLB)
3) Mick Foley (WWE)
4) The Rock (WWE)
5) Tom Brady (NFL)
6) Matt Hughes (UFC)
7) Vince McMahon (WWE)
8) Stone Cold Steve Austin (WWE)
9) Kevin Millar (MLB)
10) Chad Johnson (NFL)


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[AlexBrady]

Re: Your Top 10 Sports Figures of All Time

1. Dave Debusschere (NBA)
2. Gus Johnson (NBA)
3. Willie Mays (MLB)
4. Willis Reed (NBA)
5. Mickey Mantle (MLB)
6. Jimmy Brown (NFL)
7. John Havlicek (NBA)
8. Sandy Koufax (MLB)
9. Walt Frazier (NBA)
10. Earl Monroe (NBA)

[KSUowls]

Re: Your Top 10 Sports Figures of All Time

In order to keep things fair, I'll exclude all hometown favorites.


Martin Brodeur (NHL)

Scott Stevens (NHL)

Dale Earnhardt (Nascar)

Dale Earnhardt Jr (Nascar)

Ken Griffey Jr. (MLB)

Randy Johnson (MLB)

Martina Hingis (WTA)

Curtis Martin (NFL)

Jerome Bettis (NFL)

Vince Carter (NBA)




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[Master Live 013]

Re: Your Top 10 Sports Figures of All Time

1. Derek Jeter
2. Tiger Woods
3. Felix "Tito" Trinidad
4. José "Piculín" Ortiz
5. Bernie Williams
6. Juan "Igor" González
7. Carlos Arroyo
8. Iván "Pudge" Rodríguez
9. Monica Puig
10. Michael Jordan (Wizards version)

[Smallville102001]

Re: Your Top 10 Sports Figures of All Time

Good thread and my top 2 are like 1 and 1A but here we go

1. Shaquille o'neal (NBA)- Him and Kobe is what basically got me into loving basketball my favorite sport to play and watch. I was 11 when they one there first championship together. I do remember watching Jordan in 1998 some but its kind of fuzzy and same with spurs wining in 1999 when i was 10. Lakers championship team in 2000 run is one of my first great memories when it comes to watching sports. I loved them because it was so perfect with oneal on the inside and kobe doing the out side game and i love that Oneal seems to be a good person has given a lot of money to help people and is funny. I am glade he is still around and didn't just like go away when he was done playing.

1A. Kobe Bryant (NBA)- I loved how competitive he is and how much passion he played with and how hard he worked with. He played threw a lot of injures something i respect a lot.

3. Brett Favre (NFL)- Football is my second favorite sport a little behind basketball and a big reason for that is because of Favre he is basically why i got into watching nfl. I loved how much passion he always played with. That passion he played with made it a lot of fun to watch and like just rubs of on you. I loved how tough he was both physically and mentally. The fact he played in like 250+ games in a row at a position that takes such a beating and even more so when he was around has QB where not protected like they are now for most of his career. I still remember how great he played the day after his dad died.

4. Stephen curry (NBA)- He changed the game with his 3 point shooting and the combination of shooting and ball handling is just special also seems to be a nice guy who is not to full of high on him self.

5. Lebron James (NBA)- The combination of his passing and being able to score is something and seeing a guy at his size that is able to be has fast has him is something. The fact he seems to be one of the better humans to is great. His heart seems to always be in the right places has he is always trying to help people such has trying to help kids with the school he helped to open. He just seems to always be giving and giving.

6. Tony hawk (Skateboarder) - I am not sure if i got into tony hawk games before watching any skateboarding or if the games got me into watching skateboarding or what but the tony hawk games where a big part of my teenage years. I first played tony hawk with 3 on gamecube in 2001 when i was 12. By the time wasteland came out the last good tony hawk game i was 19. Tony hawk 3,4 and underground 1 and 2 are 4 of like my top 20 or so favorite games of all time.

7. Barry bounds (MLB)- I don't watch a lot of baseball really have not sense bounds retired but Bounds was fun to watch just felt like he could hit a HR any time he came up and the fact he could do like ever thing such has stealing base, making great catches, throwing guys out etc just made him special.

8. Ray Lewis (NFL)- Like Favre I loved the passion this guy played with. Always loved his per game dancing. Was so fun to see the big hits he would put on guys.

9. Micheal Jordan (NBA)- Like I said above with oneal and kobe 1998 seeing Jordan wining his last championship is fuzzy but Jordan is still like my introduction to seeing NBA.

10. Shaun White (Snowboarder)- Kind of like Tony hawk i think he was a big reason i got into watching extreme sports.

[JayBee74]

Re: Your Top 10 Sports Figures of All Time

(1) Frank Robinson
(2) Johnny Unitas
(3) Muhammad Ali
(4) Lamar Jackson
(5) Ray Lewis
(6) Brooks Robinson
(7) Jimmy Connors
(8) Raymond Berry
(9) Kelly Pavlik
(10) Larry Bird
<p><span style="text-decoration: line-through;">(10) Bert Jones</span></p>

Honorable mentions: Bert Jones, Chris Evert, Bob Foster, Sugar Ray Leonard, Boog Powell, Paul Blair, Ed Reed, Jennifer Capriati.

[Blzer]

Re: Your Top 10 Sports Figures of All Time

I'm posting this independently before seeing other lists to make sure I get the first ten that kind of pop into my head, then as I re-remind myself or see other lists that make me go: "Oh yeah..." it'll all be subject to change for me.

My list is going to be less about the "best of all time" though these folks will all be somewhat legendary, but mine are going to be my bigger role models that attracted me to the sport or as I watched/followed the sport. That means many occurred when I was younger. So I won't list somebody like Jim Thorpe.

These are not in any particular order, other than kind of separated by sport. For now I'm going to cap it at two athletes per sport to cover a certain spread.

• Barry Bonds (MLB)
• Ken Griffey Jr. (MLB)
• Michael Jordan (NBA)
• Kobe Bryant (NBA)
• Jerry Rice (NFL)
• Tom Brady (NFL)
• Tiger Woods (PGA)
• Tony Hawk (Skateboarding)
• Rodney Mullen (Skateboarding)
• Jeff Gordon (NASCAR)

[RockinDaMike]

Re: Your Top 10 Sports Figures of All Time

Manny Pacquiao
Larry Fitzgerald
Steve Nash
Mike Tyson
Charles Barkley
Penny Hardaway
Shaq
Peyton Manning
Jr. Seau
Michael Phelps

[LowerWolf]

Re: Your Top 10 Sports Figures of All Time

1. Joe Montana
2. Dale Murphy

3-10 (in no order)

Peyton Manning
Jerry Rice
Ronnie Lott
Steve Avery
John Smoltz
Sidney Crosby
Michael Jordan
Dominique Wilkins

[Picci]

Re: Your Top 10 Sports Figures of All Time

<li> Muhammed Ali (WBO,WBC,WBA,IBF)
<li>Michael Jordan (NBA)
<li>Roberto Clemente (MLB)
<li> Pele`(FIFA)
<li>Tom Seaver (MLB)
<li>Roger Federer (IT)
<li> Martin Brodeur (NHL)
<li>Joe Namath (NFL)
<li> Scott Stevens (NHL)
<li>Bruce Smith (NFL)</li>

[Speedy]

Re: Your Top 10 Sports Figures of All Time

Steve Avery

This is interesting to me.

[LowerWolf]

Re: Your Top 10 Sports Figures of All Time

This is interesting to me.

Avery is one of my favorite Braves after his 91 NLCS performance. He's kind of a cult hero now to me and some of my friends. Bums me out the shoulder injury derailed his career.

[Picci]

Re: Your Top 10 Sports Figures of All Time

I don't wanna do 10, so I'll narrow it down to Mt. Rushmore: Babe Ruth, Wayne Gretzky, Michael Jordan and Jackie Robinson.

while it's my opinion Gretzky and Jordan were the B.O.A.T. of hockey and basketball, I don't hold neither Ruth or Robinson were the best at baseball, that honor goes to Willie Mays, for my money. but I concede what Ruth and Robinson meant to the health of the game off the field far outweighs everything else. I had to go with Gretzky as my reluctant 4th because I'd rather went football but I still hold it's such a team effort you can't really narrow it down to a single greatest player, though I'd be tempted to go Jim Brown or Thorpe, or Tom Brady

You didn’t read the OP. It’s who you rooted for. Basically who you saw

[LetsGoBucs]

Re: Your Top 10 Sports Figures of All Time

Avery is one of my favorite Braves after his 91 NLCS performance. He's kind of a cult hero now to me and some of my friends. Bums me out the shoulder injury derailed his career.

As a Pirates fan, he's NOT one of my favorites

My favorites (in no particular order):

• Rod Woodson
• Barry Sanders
• Ken Griffey, Jr.
• Mario Lemieux
• Sidney Crosby
• Curt Schilling
• Pedro Martinez
• Doug Drabek
• Shaq/Penny (I think of them together in Orlando)
• Jerome Bettis