All - time favorite athlete

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I'm starting this thread strictly due to curiosity of who my fellow Caste footballers hold as there all time favorites.

My List:

1. Vitali Klitschko
2. Jack Dempsey
3. Mickey Mantle
4. Joe Calzaghe
5. Peyton Manning Edited by: white lightning
 

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Philippe Petit - Can't be beat for guts and everything else you can think of. There aren't three men alive today who would have done what he did.

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I don't know who my all time favorite athlete is. Here is just a short list of my favorites though: Wayne Chrebet, Tomasz Adamek, both Klitschko's, Tom Gugliotta, Keith Van Horn, and Larry Bird.
 

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I can't choose just one, here's twelve great ones:

Rocky Marciano
Wladimir Klitschko
Vitali Klitschko
Bobby Clarke
Steve Yzerman
Fedor Emelianenko
Jean Beliveau
Mark Messier
Carl Yastrzemski
Ted Williams
Lou Gehrig
Babe Ruth
 

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I will list a few.

Christophe Lemaitre

Jeremy Wariner

Larry Bird

Steve Young

Wladimir and Vitali Klitschko

Toby Gerhart

Steve Largent

Wes Welker
 

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Roger Federer
Larry Bird
Peyton Manning
Christophe Lemaitre
Pau Gasol
Fedor Emelianenko
John Riggins
Klitschko Brothers
Rafa Nadal
Jack Lambert
Lance Armstrong
Troy Aikman
Dick Butkus
Jerry West
 

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Even though he isn't white, I gotta put Manny Pacquiao on the list. Probably the best fighter I have ever seen from Featherweight up to Welterweight. Also a classy gentlemen, devoted catholic, and he has built churches and schools for the poor in his native Philippines.
 

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I fixed the title for you jcolec02. A good choice with Manny as he is a very classy guy who cares about his people similar to the Klitschko Brothers.
 

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Mickey Mantle is my favorite, followed by Peyton Manning. After that, in no particular order and i'm sure there's many others if I thought about it long enough:

Babe Ruth
Ty Cobb
Randy Johnson
Steve Carlton
Roger Clemens
Mario Lemieux
Steve Yzerman
Wayne Gretzky
Jimmy Connors (in spite of his infantile behavior)
Roger Federer
Rafa Nadal
Chris Evert
Steffi Graf
Natalie Gulbis
Larry Bird
John Stockton
Arnold Palmer
Jack Nicklaus
Greg Norman (rooted so hard for him to win majors lol)
Phil Mickelson
Wlad Klitschko
Lance Alworth
Steve Young
Drew Brees
Jack Lambert
Roberto Clemente (my favorite player after Mantle when I was a boy)Edited by: Don Wassall
 

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The Babe (of course)
Nolan Ryan
Lou Gehrig
Fernando Velenzuela
Gaylord Perry
Jose Canseco

Johnny Unitas
Joe Montana
Jack Lambert
Fred Belitnikoff
Ronny Lott
Aaron Rodgers

Larry Bird
Rick Barry
Bill Walton
John Stockton
Jerry West
Earl "The Pearl" Monroe

Dwight Stone
Dick Fosbury
Guy Drut
Roger Bannister
Lemaitre

The K brothers
Kelly Pavlik
Rocky Marciano
Jerry Quarry
Floyd Patterson
Joe CalzagheEdited by: The Hock
 

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I don't know as much about sports as these guys, so mine's short.
Patrick Jeffers, Ed McCaffery, John Elway, Fedor.
 

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All outstanding picks thus far.

Here are my top ten with an emphasis on the last 20 years.

1. Joe Calzaghe (Instramental in smashing the myth of Whites can't fight)

2. Larry Bird (Again instramental in looking at Whites as Superstars)

3. Manny Pacquiao (True Gentelman / Superstar, HOF fighter, enough said)

4. Roger Federer (probably the greatest tennis player ever.)

5. Pau Gasol (maintaining whites as stars and main reason Lakers won 2010 Basketball championship)

6. John Riggins (the last great white power back with speed, remember the run against the Dolphins in SB 83 and end round 80 yarder against the Cowboys in 79 playoffs)

7. Kelly Pavlik (Put White American fighters back and winning the undisputed middleweight championship against what some cosidered a supa affelet.)

8. The K Brothers (White Men dominating the heavyweights with ease the last five or so years.)

9. Ken Norton ( like Floyd Patterson, in conducting himself with class and speaking proper English, too bad he got hosed in his 3rd fight with Ali in Yankee Stadium and against Larry Holmes in 78)

10. Fernando Venzuela (when he played his 1st full season he was magical, thereafter, he estblished a HOF. He was a very humble and generous guy who gave alot to charity without telling anyone).
 

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I agree with everyone of your picks. Westside, please take a look at what Christophe Lemaitre has done even if you hate track. Also to any other posters who ignore athletics. It's as important as finding a white running back. Please trust me on this. We need to disprove stereotypes! Everyone of you has made excellent choices. I could pick so many more but I stopped at a few.
 

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Some are from my childhood of course and the rest as an adult and/or from researching.

Football:

Fran Tarkenton (my all-time favorite)
Doug Flutie
Rich Gannon
Toby Gerhart
Ed McCaffrey
Wes Welker
Fred Biletnikoff
John Riggins
Ray Guy

Baseball:
Ted Williams
Joe Mauer
Roy Smalley
Paul Molitor

Basketball:
John Stockton
Larry Bird
Steve Nash
Jenny Whalen
Bob Cousy
Pete Maravich

Boxing:
The K brothers
Joe Calzaghe
Roberto Duran
Rocky Marciano

MMA:
Fedor
Royce Gracie
GSP

Miscellaneous:
Jan-Ove Walder (Swedish Ping pong player)
Eddie Feigner (The King and his Court)
Bobby Fisher (Chess)
Rick Flair Woooo!
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I actually forgot to mention Lemiuex. He's my favorite hockey player and the best of all time in the sport. Steve Young is my favorite qb of all time.
 

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Don't have the time to write up a long list of faves today but my favorite athlete by far growing up was Roger Staubach.
 

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Hey White Lighting, I do not hate track. As a matter of fact I love watching it during the Olympics. As always, I hope a white star(s) will emerge. I am following Christophe Lemaitre thanks to you and this site. The reason why he was not placed in my top ten is he has not yet succeeded at the highest level of the sport, i.e. a gold medal, setting a world record or beating Bolt(PED influenced). If he did he would be in my top fifteen or twenty.

I also forgot to mention Roberto Duran, the most savage and greatest lightweight in history. Every affelet who stepped in the ring began to perverbailly to piss in his shorts. I loved watching him in his prime and his first Leonard fight.
 
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My favorites include...

Larry Bird
Dick Butkus
Ty Cobb
Sammy Baugh
Dale Murphy
Fedor Emelianenko
Klitschko brothers
Alexander Karelin
Bill Kazmaier
Dorian Yates
Richard Petty
Martin "Farmer" Burns
Lou Thesz
 

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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.
 

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Man I cant believe I forgot Fedor, and probably the strongest man who ever lived, Zydrunas Savickas.
 
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