Who's your favorite athlete ever?

[Bay10]

Mine is Marvelous Marvin Hagler.

Sugar Ray vs Hagler in a classic

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcAZ7gnRh4o

 

[65fastback2plus2]

Emmitt Smith

 

[Phoenix]

Probably Katarina Witt

Or perhaps Roger Staubach

Eh, maybe Earl Anthony.

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

Pretty close for me between Roger Staubach and Earl Campbell. If you put a gun to my head to pick one, I might just end up getting shot.

 

[jimmy40]

Pretty close for me between Roger Staubach and Earl Campbell. If you put a gun to my head to pick one, I might just end up getting shot.

Yep

 

[jterrell]

roger staubach easy.
then muhammed ali.

 

[Future]

Hard to say, but I can't remember watching any Cowboy as much as I liked watching Mark Messier...even though I was just a little kid back in 1994.

 

[CowboyMcCoy]

Mine is Marvelous Marvin Hagler.

Sugar Ray vs Hagler in a classic

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcAZ7gnRh4o

I love Hagler too. But mine is Billy Hatcher. Probably not many people have heard of him. But he was an outfielder for the Astros back in the day.

 

[Wheeltax]

Loved watching Irvin growing up. Dez could rise to the top of that list if the team would actually use him.

 

[jobberone]

Ali followed by Clemente, Mays, Mantle, Williams, Aaron, Ruth, Cobb, Nicklaus/Palmer, Thorpe, Spitz, Bobby Jones, Gretzky, J Brown, B Jackson, E Campbell, Rice, Young, Staubach, Babe Zaharias, A Sorenstam, Mickey Wright, MJ, Bill Russell, W Chamberlain, M Johnson, L Bird, O Robinson, J West, Primetime, Pele, B Orr, R Federer, Gable, Phelps, Bruce Lee, Jabbar, Lewis, Wilma Rudolph, Althea Gibson, Peggy Fleming, Jackie Robinson, G Brett, Sugar Ray, J Louis, G Howe, L Gehrig, Wagner, Speaker, Cy Young, N Ryan, Josh Gibson, S Paige in no particular order at least right now. Forgive for leaving any off.

 

[FiveRings]

Martin Brodeur. Enough things cannot be said about how amazing an all around person he is. Best goaltender ever, consistently gave the Devils home town discounts, one of the most respectable athletes period.

 

[Tabascocat]

I love Hagler too. But mine is Billy Hatcher. Probably not many people have heard of him. But he was an outfielder for the Astros back in the day.

Yea, he used to cork bats!

 

[Tabascocat]

Cowboys aside, mine is Hakeem "The Dream" Olajuwon.

 

[CowboyMcCoy]

Yea, he used to cork bats!

Yeah, I remember that. I made a bat in Jr. High on the lathe machine and I corked it because he was my favorite player. My little league coaches even let me use the bat in games. LOL I loved playing outfield and batted first like him. The Astros were my first sports love back in the day. I loved Nolan and Billy Hatcher, Mike Scott, Kevin Bass, Glenn Davis, etc.

 

[CowboyMcCoy]

Cowboys aside, mine is Hakeem "The Dream" Olajuwon.

Love that team, too, but Drexler was my favorite player. Hakeem was awesome though! Before the Cowboys, I was a huge Oiler fan and Drew Hill would have to be top 5 of my all-time favorite athletes.

 

[Sarge]

Bob Hayes
Joe Frazier

 

[dart]

Bruce Lee
1 Babe Ruth
2 Bill Russell
3 Jim Brown
4 Kareem Abdul Jabar
5 Oscar Robertson
6 Larry Bird
7 Roberto Clemente
8 Walter Payton
9 Earvin "Magic" Johnson Jr
10 Jesse Owens us to run against my distance cousin Francis Xavier Cretzmeyer, Jr - The University of Iowa track and field team practices and competes at the Francis X. Cretzmeyer Track during the outdoor season

then others
Jerry Rice
Larry Allen
Barry Sanders
Emmitt Smith
Herschel Walker
Bo Jackson
Jim Thorpe
Reggie White
Nolan Ryan
Pele

 

[Keifer]

The Cowboys are the only sports team that I have been loyal to and borderline obsessed with, I don't know why but its been that way since I was a kid but far and away my favorite athlete of all time is George Brett.

 

[pjtoadie]

Emmitt Smith for me. I was 11 when the Cowboys drafted him and that's when I really started liking them.

 

[mldardy]

Emmitt Smith

Plus:
Julius Erving
Allen Iverson
Andre Dawson
Walter Payton
Ernie Banks