Greatest Sportsman Of All-Time?
 

Whom?

(8) Oh Muhammed, Muhammed Ali
He Floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee. (8)

ALI

a true icon :y:

Cassius Clay.

i would have gone for george best if it was greatest alcoholic of all time!

lol at him though, he was once asked whats the closet to kick off that he's had sex







his answer was half time!!!!!

Even though I wish death upon his daughter I would have to say Muhammed Ali.

I've got this poster of him in his prime and it says "I'm so fast that last night I turned the light off, and I was in bed before the room went dark."

Quality

I suppose I'd say Ali because not only was he the man but he also had charisma.

I'm watching a Babe Ruth film at the moment and he seems like the man, when he was out but didn't agree with it he picked up some mud from the base and threw it in the umpires face. And when this bloke tried to wind him up he said "I'm gunna hit this one down your throat so you'll stop sucking on your mothers tit for a while" :lol: I dunno if he really did those things or if it is just in the movie, but its funny as hell.

lol.

I am going to go with Jordan

Schumacher. :cool: :p

Ali because he's the best on that list who played individual sports.

Jordan was every bit the equal of Ali in basketball terms, ability, desire to win etc, but in a team sport it's so much harder to rate individual greatness.

ESPN the finals was like...

Michael Vick vs Lance Armstrong.

Lance won.

What the fuck?

Where the hell is Cal Ripkin Jr. or Joe Dimaggio?

Ali - Legend

Does that mean you're going to kill him?

Zidane for me. I've never seen a footballer quite like him. I think I'd take Maradona over the two that are on that list, aswell.

Muhammed Ali, bitches.

I'd like to vote best, but as great as he was on the pitch, I don't think his career at the top lasted long enough really. What age was he when he quit united again?

Wasn't it 27?

29 I think

Lance Armstrong is an unbelieveable athlete dude.

Best of all time?

George Best wins because he managed to fit in winning stuff whilst being a raging alcoholic and shagging a legendary amount of Miss Worlds and record numbers of birds.

I remember hearing such a story, when Man Utd were to play, I think it was, West Ham during Bests prime. The West Ham team were pretty upbeat before the match because Best was, for the lack of a better word, bladdered. With Best in no state to be a threat, they were looking good for victory... and Best still scored a hattrick. Quality.

Apparently there is a story in his autobiography of a day when he shagged 7 different women.

have to check that up ECG. just bought the book the other day and am going to get into it soon.

Is it the "Blessed" one? Cos he had another. probably both.

What about First Century A.D. boxer Melancomus? He won all 53 of his fights without ever throwing a punch.

That's pretty impressive.

Nope, he failed a drugs test.

Stupid doping Romans...

Best was incredible, but no man has so single-handidly dragged a mediocre team to win the World Cup other than Maradona. Why he's not on the list baffles me.

I bet Maradona couldn't take Northern Ireland to a world cup win :'(

That's not to say others (Pele, Di Stefano, Garrincha, Best) couldn't have though, but they all either played in outstanding teams or never played in a World Cup.

And to be fair to the Argentina 86 squad, bar Maradona, it was mediocre for an Argentina squad, but even without Maradona, they would have done alright. They wouldn't have won, Maradona certainly was the guy who won it for them, but y'know, quarters, maybe semis if they were lucky..

Romario won the World Cup for a very, very medicore Brazil side in 1994.

Hristo Stoichkov got an average Bulgaria side to the semis of the same competition.

Just saying.

I'd have to go with Gretzky. The guy set so many records, it's amazing.

He's probably the best all-around hockey player of all time. Socring 92 goals in one seaosn is just amazing.

Mario Lemieux would win if he hadn't been so injured in the past.

ALI
Self-explanatory really.

I say Jim Thorpe. As my reason for voting 'other'. The guy played pro football, baseball, basketball, won the gold medal in the pentathlon and decathlon in the Stockholm games. Stories about this guy are just amazing. He made the NFL what it is today. Thorpe started and popularized American football.

I'm disapointed that Hicham El-Guerrouj and Sebastien Coe are'nt on the list.

On top of that, I'd have said Roberto Baggio was the player of the tournament, as he was carrying an Italian team the wrong side of mediocre single handidly. When it came down to it, Brazil other than Romario were better than Italy other than Baggio (true, their match went to penalties, but Brazil were the better team on the day and the two teams tournament results reflect that also).

Come to think of it, international football was VERY average in 1994 for the World Cup. Brazil were in between the Carera/Zico years and the Ronaldo years, Holland were suffering the same symptoms without guys like Van Basten or Gullit anymore, Germanys side was starting to show signs of age and were all falling out with each other (Klinsmann was outstading, though), Italy were being held together by Baggio (and to a lesser extent Baresi), Argentina fell apart after the Maradona scandal, Colombia were widely tipped to win it until everyone realised they were crap, England and France were collective shambles and didn't even bloody qualify and Romania were very good but at the end of the day it's only Romania. In the end, Brazil won simply because a mediocre Brazilian side is usually still good enough to beat most opposition (guys like Dunga and Bebeto never set the world on fire but were consistent and hard working enough to pull their weight along just fine).

That's quite a tangent.

That free kick Vs Germany was great. Somewhere I have a poster of it

Yeah, Baggio was brilliant, one of the best players I've seen in my football watching time. People often forget about the likes of Baggio and Stoichkov when talking about the greatest of all time.

Although Paul McGrath did mark Baggio out of the first game completely.