All - time favorite athlete

[DWFan]

I've thought about it and I need to add Don Beebe to my list.

1) He did the most hilarious thing I've seen in the NFL when he stripped that Dallas dude about to score.
2) He feels the same as us about at least some of the discrimination against whites, and
3) In Tecmo Bowl he used to constantly catch 100+ yard passes from me.

 

[icsept]

George Brett
Pete Rose
Nolan Ryan
Larry Bird
John Stockton
Andre Agassi
Roger Federer
Jimmy Connors
Barry Sanders
Brett Favre
Toby Gerhart
Wes Welker

 

[Colonel_Reb]

So many of my favorites have already been named, but I'll list some childhood favorites who haven't yet been mentioned.

Kirk Gibson-All-American WR at Michigan State and superb baseball player. I'll never forget his 1988 World Series pinch hit HR while sick and injured. To me he was a great example of grit and determination. No matter how bad things look, keep going.

Orel Hershiser-The Bulldog had character and was a tremendous competitor. He got me interested in baseball in the late 80s.

Elliot Perry-We lived close to Memphis in 89 and 90 and I used to watch him play on TV. He was basketball's Urkel look-a-like. He was fairly short, skinny, and looked different than everyone else with his old fashioned high socks and goggles. He was had the underdog image that appealed to me at the time. Of course if he'd been White he'd have been the ultimate underdog.

 

[GreatLakeState]

So many of my favorites have already been named, but I'll list some childhood favorites who haven't yet been mentioned. Kirk Gibson-All-American WR at Michigan State and superb baseball player. I'll never forget his 1988 World Series pinch hit HR while sick and injured. To me he was a great example of grit and determination. No matter how bad things look, keep going.

Good call on Gibby. There are legendary stories about him at MSU, including one of the all-time best 40s (like 4.2) that he ran at Jenison Fieldhouse, and 360 dunks in intramural hoops.

 

[Don Wassall]

Pete Rose

Good one there I had forgotten. I always enjoyed watching him play, the epitome of a baseball player.

 

[DixieDestroyer]

Dixie I like your list. The only problem is the Dorian Yates! 1st, how is body building a sport? More like a contestent show for men. 2nd, no respect for anyone who pumps in massive amount of roids to look like a freak. Today all the high end bodybuilders are freaks.

Come on, what eye to hand or leg corridination does one need to lift extreme amount of weights aided by roids? None. Just My opinion.

Good points. I guess Yates is my favorite bodybuilder of the "modern" era. In the pre-juice days, I think Roy "Reg" Park was my favorite.

Also, I meant to add legendary Georgia strongman Paul Anderson to the list.

 

[space hillbilly]

My favorite athlete is Kimbo Slice!
he make's every white guy look like the greatest fighter in history!

 

[Quiet Speed]

Bjorn Borg
Dan Marino
Roger Federer
Larry Bird
Pete Maravich
Lance Alworth

Honorable Mention:
Evel Knievel
Secretariat

 

[whiteCB]

Baseball:
Bob Feller (best RHP EVER in my book)
Jim Thome
Charles Nagy
Nap Lajoie
Tris Speaker

Basketball:
Mark Price
Steve Nash
Dirk
Tom Chambers
Jack Sikma

Football:
Clay Matthews
Steve Largent
Wes Welker
John Riggins
Roger Wherli
Dick LeBeau

 

[Lance Alworth]

Steve Young is far and away my favorite athlete. No one else even comes close.

My namesake also deserves an honorable mention

 

[Bart]

I'm surprised no one mentioned the greatest skater of all time - Eric Heiden. He's from Madison Wi. His German father and Slovene mother also produced a world class speed skating daughter. Heiden is still the most revered athlete in Holland from what I've read.

 

[jcolec02]

Mariusz Pudzianowski

 

[Rebajlo]

Funnily enough, most of my favourite athletes are football (soccer) players

:

George Best (the greatest footballer of all-time)
Wlodzimierz Lubanski
Kazimierz Deyna
Grzegorz Lato (who, unfortunately, these days is the ultra-corrupt president of the Polish F.A.

)
Zbigniew Boniek
Marek Lesniak
Alfredo Di Stefano (right up there with Best)
Stanley Matthews
Bobby Charlton
Davie Cooper
Kevin Keegan
Chris Waddle
Steve Moran
Ian Rush
Neville Southall
Mark Hughes
Mark Hateley
Gordon Strachan
John Wark
Paul McStay
Kevin Moran
Norman Whiteside
Juanito
Paulo Futre
Emilio Butragueno
Michel
Jose Maria Bakero
Michel Platini
Manuel Amoros
Dominique Rocheteau (one of my childhood heroes. Unfortunately, the guy is essentially a communist. If only the little Rebajlo hadknown...

)
Glenn Stromberg
Jan Ceulemans
Luc Millecamps
Johan Cruyff
Arnold Muhren
Preben Elkjaer
Marco Tardelli
Bruno Conti
Giuseppe Giannini
Paolo Maldini
Franco Baresi
Enzo Francescoli

Rugby Union:

Gareth Edwards
Barry John
David Campese
Michael Lynagh

Boxing:

Tom Cribb

Athletics:

Wladyslaw Kozakiewicz (Pole Vaulter). Here's a video of his "gesture" towards the Soviet top brass andcrowd who were booing him at the Moscow Olympics:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn0in1fzqoI

 

[jcolec02]

I just looked up that Tom Cribb guy, WOW! he was fighting 100 years before Jack Dempsey...thats really old school.

 

[Solomon Kane]

John Riggins; Len Dawson; Joe Namath; Don Maynard; Mark Moseley; Jan Stenerud; Steve Van Buren.

Rick Barry, Jerry West, Bob Pettit, Billy Paultz, Brad Davis, Jeff Ruland, Kevin Mchale, Nate Thurmond

Mike Mussina, Babe ruth, lou gehrig, nolan ryan, ron santo, harmon killebrew, ken holtzman, catfish hunter, carl yazstrzmski, johnny bench, carlton fisk, billy williams

Rocky Marciano, Rocky Graziano, Jerry quarryEdited by: Solomon Kane

 

[Booth]

Roger Carr was one of my favorite players on the Colts. He was the first player ever to do this. He dunked the football over the goalpost.https://www.baltimoresun.com/resize...aws.com/public/52XY7XA7PNCDBHH44KELRRD6IQ.jpg