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By popular demand, here is my top 10 list I shared on air.
Michael Phelps has been touted by NBC, Sports Illustrated, and Time as the "greatest athlete ever." No way!
Greatness involves more than on-field or on-court accomplishments. That is part of greatness. But real Greatness would also include faith, generosity, intelligence, family and marriage, and citizenship contributions to the nation. THAT is greatness.
Phelps is just 23 years old. Other than Olympic achievement, we have little else to measure him with. It is too early to tell whether he will become truly great.
Here are my top 10 greatest athletes ever:
10)Andre Agassi – 8 Grand Slam titles and launched a $50MM foundation to serve kids in poverty
9)Roberto Clemente - 3000 hits, family man, great right-fielder, and sacrificed his life on a mission of mercy to assist earthquake victims in Nicaragua
8) Hank Aaron - 755 HR, Hall of Famer, successful businessman, strong character
7) Tiger Woods - What can you say about his golfing? Then he gives away $9.5MM in 2006
6) Dikembe Mutombo - Given and raised a total of $20MM for Congo hospital, NBA defensive player of the year on multiple occasions, strong marriage, speaks 9 languages, and a degree from Georgetown
5) Charlie Ward – Heisman Trophy winner, NBA player for 10+ years, MLB draftee. Quite a combo. Plus won a national champ in football, FCA giant, strong marriage, and the list goes on
4) Warrick Dunn – Homes for 74 single moms and their 197 dependents, Katrina relief, humility, national champ at FSU, and met on death row with murderer of his mother
3) Jackie Robinson – changed the face of America, endured persecution with grace, MVP, World Series champ, Hall of Famer, solid marriage, activist
2) Jesse Owens – Olympic success in Berlin, rebuke of Hitler, winner in charity and citizenship
1) David Robinson Get this:
Naval Academy degree in math
Healthy Marriage and family life
Faith giant
National player of year in college, NBA MVP, 2X NBA champ
2 Olympic Gold medals
2 years active military service
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$11MM gift to create Carver Academy for kids in poverty in San Antonio– perhaps largest gift ever by athlete at one time
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So an atheist or agnostic could not qualify as "greatest athlete"? That's blatant religious bigotry on your part; not that it surprises me.
By the way, would you consider Roqaya Al-Gassra of Bahrain (who ran in a specially designed hijab) a greater athlete than the other runners who shamelessly exposed their hair and navels?
Again, what if someone decides not to get married or at least delay marriage? How does mere fact of being married or produce children affect their greatness as an athlete?
First I do not think you should tie
all the off field stuff to being a great athlete. You can be a great athlete and still be a jerk.
Still have to make my case for Jim Thorpe. Winner of two Gold Medals played pro football baseball and basketball. Did it all when American Indians were not even US citizens.
Love the Warick Dunn pick if you are using your guidelines.
Also Jackie Robinson, Jessei Owens has to be on there. Others that would make my list. John Smith greatest American wrestler of all time. Lance Armstrong however he did limite himself not only to cycling but also to the Tour de France. that would be like Tiger playing only in the Masters. Since I think you need to be great in more than one sport I would have to include Dion Sanders and Maybe Bo Jackson if he did not have the injuries. Best Basball player all time and you wont like it Pete Rose.
But being a decent human does include many of the qualities you list plus more.
Being of the female persuasion, I don't keep up with "stats" of players. But after reading about Roberto Clemente and Warrick Dunn, I am quite moved.
When a ballplayer who makes a gazillion dollars a minute gives $11M to a charity, I am only slightly impressed. (If it was their last $11M, then we can talk.) But giving one's life to help earthquake victims and the enormous strength it had to take to forgive the person who murdered your mother... now THAT is something!
How about instead a list of top 10 scientists, those mental athletes who contribute so much to all our lives, rather than this list of genetic mutants whose main contribution to society is entertaining us with their freakish ball-handling abilities.