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Who do you all think is the greatest athlete of any sport of all time?
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I think it's Cristiano Ronaldo. He's playing the world's game against the world's best.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_career_achievements_by_Cristiano_Ronaldo
He's made 1,000+ professional career appearances and has scored over 700+ senior career goals for club and country.
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The Greatest player in Champions league
The Greatest player of Portugal
The Greatest player in the Premier League
The Greatest player in La Liga
The Greatest player to be soon in the Serie A
The Greatest player of Europe
The Greatest athlete & most professional football player the world has ever seen
The Greatest player of all time.
CR7 The King GOAT
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_career_achievements_by_Cristiano_Ronaldo
He's made 1,000+ professional career appearances and has scored over 700+ senior career goals for club and country.
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The Greatest player in Champions league
The Greatest player of Portugal
The Greatest player in the Premier League
The Greatest player in La Liga
The Greatest player to be soon in the Serie A
The Greatest player of Europe
The Greatest athlete & most professional football player the world has ever seen
The Greatest player of all time.
CR7 The King GOAT
acco40
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Jim Thorpe.
“Thorpe won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon and the pentathlon in 1912. He simultaneously played professional baseball and football, interchanging his sport by the seasons. He was a co-founder of and the first president of what became the National Football League.
Many of his records — feats of strength, speed and cunning — would align Thorpe with world-class athletes of today. That’s a massive accomplishment considering improvements in conditioning and equipment of modern sportsmen.”
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“Thorpe won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon and the pentathlon in 1912. He simultaneously played professional baseball and football, interchanging his sport by the seasons. He was a co-founder of and the first president of what became the National Football League.
Many of his records — feats of strength, speed and cunning — would align Thorpe with world-class athletes of today. That’s a massive accomplishment considering improvements in conditioning and equipment of modern sportsmen.”
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vigil617
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I was going to say Jim Thorpe too.
Incidentally, and as you all probably know, Thorpe was stripped of his medals when it was discovered he had played professional baseball, which would have rendered him ineligible to compete in the Olympics.
What you probably didn't know was that the team he played for was in my hometown. He was a member of the Rocky Mount Railroaders in the Eastern Carolina League in 1909 and 1910. He would have made the princely sum of about 55 bucks (in 2020 dollars) per game.
There's a state commemorative marker near the field -- long gone now -- where he played.
Incidentally, and as you all probably know, Thorpe was stripped of his medals when it was discovered he had played professional baseball, which would have rendered him ineligible to compete in the Olympics.
What you probably didn't know was that the team he played for was in my hometown. He was a member of the Rocky Mount Railroaders in the Eastern Carolina League in 1909 and 1910. He would have made the princely sum of about 55 bucks (in 2020 dollars) per game.
There's a state commemorative marker near the field -- long gone now -- where he played.
Karem Abdul Jabbar
Greatest scorer in BB.
They banned dunking in college basketball just because of him.
Greatest scorer in BB.
They banned dunking in college basketball just because of him.
Babe Ruth. He was hitting 50-60 home runs per year when most teams didn’t hit 50. He was a dominating pitcher before they put him in the outfield because he was such a great hitter.
He had a lifetime record of 94-46 and an ERA of 2.2770. His ERA is 16th best among all major league pitchers. Five of the pitchers with a lower ERA than Ruth pitched before 1900 at some point in their career. ... Ruth was the AL ERA champion in 1916 for the Red Sox with a 1.75 ERA.
He had a lifetime record of 94-46 and an ERA of 2.2770. His ERA is 16th best among all major league pitchers. Five of the pitchers with a lower ERA than Ruth pitched before 1900 at some point in their career. ... Ruth was the AL ERA champion in 1916 for the Red Sox with a 1.75 ERA.
As I don’t know the other sports nearly as well, I’ll go with what I do know... Wayne Gretzky. Even hockey fans will argue his greatness over other players from different eras, but when it comes to scoring, he single handedly made a complete and total mockery of the record books.
Gretzky’s scoring records are so ridiculous that it has made an entirely fun side discussion — fantastic NHL scoring feats and records that other players have managed to win, own or keep that Gretzky didn’t TAKE.
Examples: consecutive seasons of 50 or more goals, and 20-goal seasons for different teams. (Mike Bossy and Ray Sheppard, for the record(s))
Gretzky’s scoring records are so ridiculous that it has made an entirely fun side discussion — fantastic NHL scoring feats and records that other players have managed to win, own or keep that Gretzky didn’t TAKE.
Examples: consecutive seasons of 50 or more goals, and 20-goal seasons for different teams. (Mike Bossy and Ray Sheppard, for the record(s))
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This Decathlete gets my vote:
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Aaron Rodgers. Lee
This is one of my favorite topics to discuss.
Beats the hell out of Covid.
I have opined that the three greatest athletes in American History are, based on their dominance of their sport, Babe Ruth for the reasons in my other post. Michael Jordan, and Secretariat. If you compare Secretariat’s time in the Belmont with the last two Triple Crown winners, American Pharoah and Justify, Big Red would have defeated either of them by 10-plus lengths.
Bo Jackson deserves honorable mention.
Beats the hell out of Covid.
I have opined that the three greatest athletes in American History are, based on their dominance of their sport, Babe Ruth for the reasons in my other post. Michael Jordan, and Secretariat. If you compare Secretariat’s time in the Belmont with the last two Triple Crown winners, American Pharoah and Justify, Big Red would have defeated either of them by 10-plus lengths.
Bo Jackson deserves honorable mention.
So does Deion Sanders. He's the only athlete to have played in both a Super Bowl and a World Series. And here's an accomplishment of his that may never be equaled: He hit a MLB home run and scored an NFL touchdown in the same week.
Eltioloco
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Lance Armstrong. He won more Tour de France's then anybody. And I hear he did them all on drugs, heck when I'm on drugs I can't even find my house let alone win a bicycle race.
keith44spl
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Jolting Joe Lewis.
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I can't do it. I can't narrow it to one.
Between MJ, Babe, Thorpe, Deion, Bo, Ali, Howe, Pele, Brown and a bushel of other spectacular talents, I can't land on one for more than an instant before that voice says: "wait, what about ________??"
Picking my favourite corpuscle would be easier.
Between MJ, Babe, Thorpe, Deion, Bo, Ali, Howe, Pele, Brown and a bushel of other spectacular talents, I can't land on one for more than an instant before that voice says: "wait, what about ________??"
Picking my favourite corpuscle would be easier.
mdf9183
US Veteran
Genghis Khan, He was a really good horseman.
