GOAT OF EVERY SPORT?

1. basketball- wilt chamberain

2. football- joe montana

3. hockey- gordie howe

4. baseball- joe dimagio

5. boxing- henry armstrong was 135, 147 and 160 pound champion SIMUTANEOUSLY, when there were only eight weight divisions and only 1 champion per division.

6. geb and t.dibaba for women.

7. carl lewis (based on longevity bolt had 2 great years so far, lewis over a decade, and lewis was a long jumper who sprinted, not a sprinter who long jumped (women evelyn ashford, i take her long career at the top over flo'jos decent career and 3 month HUGE improvement, after which she IMMEDIATELY retired, which makes it look like she was thinking okay better quit before i get caght)

8. soccer, edson arantes do nascimento.

1.Basketball-Michael Jordan, by a long shot

2.Football- Peyton Manning would be if he would win more Super Bowls and had better playoff record.

3.Hockey-Wayne Gretzky

4.Baseball-Babe Ruth, by stats alone he is. His 60 HR was done with less games than today.

5.Boxing-Muhammad Ali

6.Distance Running-Kenenisa Bekele

7.Track and Field: Carl Lewis. Hopefully, he was clean. I have my doubts on Usain Bolt

8.Soccer-Pele

9.Tennis-Roger Federer. I've never seen anyone as good as him in his prime. Not even close.

6. I say Bekele AND Geb; one has the titles, the other has pushed human limits (although Bekele broke both his most important records on the track).

7. Hot one between Bolt, Johnson, and Lewis. Lewis had the titles and longevity, Johnson had the consistency, longevity, titles and the world records, Bolt is the world's fastest man and did it in sensational style 2 years in a row (9.58?!).

9. Cycling: Eddy Merckx

10. Swimming: Phelps

1.Basketball-Michael Jordan

2.Football-Jerry Rice

3.Hockey-Wayne Gretzky

4.Baseball-Babe Ruth(Most will say)

These are not major sports outside of America

ukathleticscoach wrote:

1.Basketball-Michael Jordan

2.Football-Jerry Rice

3.Hockey-Wayne Gretzky

4.Baseball-Babe Ruth(Most will say)

These are not major sports outside of America

Really!?!?! you must be a genius!

Basketball- Michael Jordan

Football- Lawrence Taylor

Hockey- Wayne Gretzky

Baseball- Ted Williams

Boxing- Sugar Ray Robinson

Golf - Jack Nicklaus (Bobby Jones if he had stuck with it, but as Tiger Woods has shown, it gets harder to stay that dominant later in the career)

Tennis - To be decided. Federer had it clinched about two years back, but Nadal and now Djokovic may prove better in their future careers

Skateboard - Tony Hawk

BMX - Dave Mirra

Greco-Roman Wrestling - Aleksandr Karelin

Most other sports - can you really compare Jerry Rice vs. Joe Montana, Wayne Gretzky vs. Patrick Roy, or Ted Williams vs. Cy Young? That is the same as saying the GOAT for Track and Field, including all events.

Freestyle wrestling: Cael Sanderson

Volleyball: Karch Karaly?

Cycling (match sprint): Daniel Morelin

Lacrosse: Argument could be made for Jim Brown

Me - Everything I do.

ukathleticscoach wrote:

1.Basketball-Michael Jordan

2.Football-Jerry Rice

3.Hockey-Wayne Gretzky

4.Baseball-Babe Ruth(Most will say)

These are not major sports outside of America

You're an idiot.

Also, you're wrong.

ukathleticscoach wrote:

1.Basketball-Michael Jordan

2.Football-Jerry Rice

3.Hockey-Wayne Gretzky

4.Baseball-Babe Ruth(Most will say)

These are not major sports outside of America

As other people have said, you are an idiot. Basketball, huge international following. Hockey, the European influence is insane. Baseball, the Latin American influence and interest is enormous.

Football, yeah I will give you that one.

Joe Montana was very good, but probably the 3rd best 49er of all time after Rice and Steve Young.

Treadmill Marathon Running - Brandon Moen

Female Treadmill Marathon Running - Gun, Pirate, Cat Girl

I assume this is only for male sports?

We may have to consider Jim Brown as the GOAT for foootball.

Wide Receivers just aren't involved in a high percentage of plays enough to influence the game the way a Jim Brown did.

(Though I never saw Jim Brown play)

Baseball: the babe

Hockey: gretzky hands down most dominant player of any sport ever

Basketball: jordan

Football: rice

Golf: nikolaus, unless tiger comes back

Soccer: beckham or george best

Distance runner: geb, kb maybe in 5 years

Sprinter: lewis now bolt if he hangs around for another 10 years

Boxing: should have ben tyson, but it's ali

Jai-Alai: rekalde

Basketball - Kobe Bryant

Boxing - Rocky (Marciano)

Running - Paula Radcliffe

Golf - Nicklaus

Martial Arts - Bruce Lee

Cycling - Lance Armstrong

Tennis - Martina Navratilova

Sumo wrestling - Yokozuna Taiho

Rugby (real men's football) - Garreth Edwards

Some lunatic wrote:

Soccer: beckham or george best

LOL!! LOLMAO!!!

Welcome to the 21st century power of advertising.

to be fair george best isn't a bad shout, but if GOAT means in terms of skill or achievement than Beckham is nowhere near on both counts.

GOAT for football (the real football!) is Maradona just edging it from Pele.