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| who is the number 1 sporting legend?
Posted: 10/15/2006 9:48:21 PM | Also you've got to give credit to Jackie Robinson for sheer guts, class and sportsmanship. There were a lot of haters who wanted him to fail or blow his cool. It would have been easy for him to lose his cool or just give up, but he never did.
There have been better athletes, but his exemplary strength and inspiration broke down the doors of segregation in the sports world and forever changed the face of pro sports (except maybe for hockey and NASCAR).
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| who is the number 1 sporting legend?
Posted: 1/4/2007 12:26:22 PM | Well, here is my list:
1. Muhammad Ali
2. Jim Thorpe
3. Mildred "Babe" Didrikson-Zaharias (The greatest female athlete of all-time)
4. Jesse Owens
5. Wayne Gretzky
6. Mark Spitz
7. Joe Namath
8. Wilma Rudolph
9. Michael Jordan
10. Jackie Joyner-Kersee
11. Bobby Hull
12. Gordie Howe
13. Paavo Nurmi (Olympic distance running champ: 1924 and 1928)
14. Terry Bradshaw
15. Mary Decker-Slaney (Distance running champ)
16. Dawn Fraser (Olympic swimming champ: 1956, 1960, and 1964)
17. Johnny Weissmuller (Olympic swimming champ: 1932 and 1936; also played "Tarzan")
18. Roger Staubach
19. Joe Montana
20. Peggy Fleming
21. Dorothy Hamill
22. Jim Ryun
23. Frank Shorter
24. Steve Prefontaine
25. Nadia Comenci
26. Mary Lou Retton | |
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| who is the number 1 sporting legend?
Posted: 1/4/2007 12:28:28 PM | | Also, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Mickey Mantle, and etc. There's so many, that it's hard to mention all of them. Sorry if I had skipped a lot of people from baseball, football, and basketball. I'm truly sorry. I'm more of an Olympic buff and track & field buff too. | |
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| who is the number 1 sporting legend?
Posted: 1/5/2007 7:46:14 AM | i stand by secretariat.
in the 33 years since his triple crown, no one has come close to his derby time.
and winning the belmont by 31 lengths...absolutely unheard of.
plus, he was handsome and charming, never broke any laws, stayed out of trouble, and ~ look at his progeny! | |
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Chrysi
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| who is the number 1 sporting legend?
Posted: 1/9/2007 12:38:01 PM | | When you say legend what comes to my mind is someone who exudes sportmenship and perserevance amoungst being a top athlete in his sport. Since Armstrong has already been mentioned, next who fills those shoes in my mind is Cal Ripken Jr. | |
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| who is the number 1 sporting legend?
Posted: 1/9/2007 11:05:16 PM | Legend [lej-uhnd] -Noun
Defined in part by the following:
6. a collection of stories about an admirable person.
7. a person who is the center of such stories
Without a shadow of a doubt...Muhammad Ali. If you think about the sheer amount of press, and stories factual or fictional, that was/is spread around the globe, it has to be this man.
Honourable mention: Michael Jordan. | |
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| who is the number 1 sporting legend?
Posted: 1/11/2007 8:04:50 AM | | You cant just quote from American sports only. There are some amazing athletes outside of the States that would class with guys like Michael Jordan, Marc Spitz and Muhammed Ali! | |
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| who is the number 1 sporting legend?
Posted: 2/1/2007 3:04:46 AM | LANCE ARMSTRONG of course. To have recovered from cancer and make a come back to win SEVEN Tour de France titles is incredable!!!  | |
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| who is the number 1 sporting legend?
Posted: 2/1/2007 4:55:07 PM | I have to go with Gretzky as far as someone who absolutely dominated their sport.
Jardon, Ali, Pele, they're the ones that stick out the most to me. | |
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| who is the number 1 sporting legend?
Posted: 7/4/2007 1:00:10 AM | This thread shows some concerning traits.
So many named only played domesticly.
Anyway Ive been privilaged to be brought up by immergrants but I am loyal to there place of immergration and thus have followed or kept an eye on numrous sports.
Stastisticly Sir Donal Bradman owns statistics.
Pure instinctive skill is a toss up between Micheal jordan and Ayrton senna.
Arrogance , dawn fraser.
Impact on the Sport, Pele.
Impact on a disadvantage group, Mohammed Ali.
but the biggest legends ever are the seven Australian Rugby union players who refused to play the South African side when they toured in 1971, there sacrifice and they got it from all directions achieved so much for so many they they would never meet.
It took 20 years but this was the one incident you can define as the beggining of the end of apartied and similar problems around the world. | |
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| who is the number 1 sporting legend?
Posted: 7/5/2007 8:17:51 PM | Jackie Robinson - baseball
Michael Jordan - basketball
Pele - soccer
Muhammed Ali - boxing
Jesse Owens - olympics
Walter Payton - football | |
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| who is the number 1 sporting legend?
Posted: 7/5/2007 9:53:57 PM | LANE FROST!!!!!!!!!
He is my idol of course. I have been riding bulls since I was very young and have met a lot of the greats. I did get to meet Lane Frost when I was about 7 or so. He was riding here in Amarillo, and I got to shake his hand and he was very cool. He rode a bull that they said no man could possibly ride. He loved God. He was as much into meeting the new faces of the rodeo as he was in riding bulls. That is what I think made him so great. | |
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| who is the number 1 sporting legend?
Posted: 7/6/2007 8:36:32 AM | If this is supposed to be a worldwide survey, it would probably have to be Pelé.
Americans tend to forget that the rest of the world neither knows nor cares much about American sports and heroes. | |
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| who is the number 1 sporting legend?
Posted: 7/7/2007 1:08:24 PM | Wayne Gretzky has done more for his sport than any other athlete that I can think of.
Honourable mentions
Lance Armstrong, Michael Jordan, Muhammed Ali | |
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