Which athletes in their respective sports do you consider to be the G.O.A.T?

Meaning Greatest Of All Time? So, of all the sports out there or the ones you follow who would you list?

Soccer - Zinedine Zidane, Pele, Lionel Messi
Basketball - Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Kobe Bryant
Tennis - Roger Federer
Hockey - Wayne Gretzky

Rickey Henderson.

He changed the sport single handedly no one was as above their peers as he was.

Only going to do American based sports

NHL: Bobby Orr

NBA: MJ

NFL: Joe Montana

Ok then here, i'll add abit of variety to this,

Cricket: Sir Donald Bradman - Thought the game of Cricket was boring to watch so he went out there and just tried to smash the ball as much as he could, ended up being hte Greatest batsman and player of all time.

Boxing - Obviously Muhammad Ali, although if it was based on personality alone i wouldnt say so.

Kickboxing - I want to say Andy Hug but with only one K-1 title he falls short to guys who won it multiple times, So i'll say Semmy Schilt, tho Semmy has always had a huge physical advantage over his opponents and uses it very well so i wouldnt argue if people called Peter Aerts or Ernesto Hoost the GOAT in kickboxing.

Mixed Martial Arts - By far the GOAT is Fedor Emelianenko, a man that could have competed a MW but instead ruled the most volatile and unpredicatable division in MMA history in the biggest and best MMA organisation the world ever saw, aswell as beating the champions of competing organisations on multiple times.
Undefeated for a decade he was a true mixed martial artist, beating his opponents in every way possible and even defeating them at their own game which is something few can do, but he did.

The 58th Yokozuna Chiyonofuji (Mitsugu Akimoto) AKA "The Wolf" currently Kokonoe Oyakata.

Andy Purvis.

Tiddlywinks just wouldn't be the sport it is without him.

Wayne Gretzky
Bobby Orr
Mario Lemieux
Joe Sakic
Steve Yzerman
Bobby Hull
Gordie Howe
Patrick Roy
Niklas Lidstrom
Maurice Richard

To name a few

NBA - Michael Jordan

Soccer - Pele/Maradona

NFL - Joe Montana

NASCAR - Richard Petty

F1 - Ayrton Senna

Basketball - Michael Jordan

Baseball - Ted Williams

NFL - Joe Montana or Jim Brown

NHL - Wayne Gretzky

Tennis - Who cares

Golf - Jack Nicklaus - maybe Tiger Woods after a few more wins

Soccer - Pele

Rickey Henderson.

He changed the sport single handedly no one was as above their peers as he was.

GummiRaccoon

Rickey Henderson.

He changed the sport single handedly no one was as above their peers as he was.

GummiRaccoon

How did Rickey Henderson change the sport?

NFL -Montana, Bruce Smith, Barry Sanders

NBA - Both MJs

NHL - Gretzky & Hasek

I've never had an interest in the history of sport. So I could only name recent greats, and then you'd all be like... are you ten, bro?SolidSnake35

Jack Nicholson is the GOAT

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I don't feel qualified to comment on any sports other than basketball and football.

Basketball- Michael Jordan is #1. The other contenders are Wilt Chamberlain, Magic Johnson, Kobe Bryant, Lebron James.

Football- This is tough because of the drastically different roles that different positions play in football. Here's a list to pick from-

Joe Montana

Peyton Manning

Lawrence Taylor

Barry Sanders

Jim Brown

Tom Brady (you have no idea how much I hate putting him on this list)

Jerry Rice

Tom Brady > Peyton ManningSilverbond

Eli Manning > Tom Brady

[QUOTE="Silverbond"]Tom Brady > Peyton Manninghartsickdiscipl

Eli Manning > Tom Brady

GOAT.

Cycling - Eddy Merckx. He dominated the sport without having to resort to chemistry, like Armstrong did.

Soccer - Pele & Maradona

NBA - Kareem, Bird, & MJ

Body Building - Arnold

Speed Skating - Eric Heiden

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Rickey Henderson.

He changed the sport single handedly no one was as above their peers as he was.

worlock77

How did Rickey Henderson change the sport?

He changed the way that pitchers pitch.

[QUOTE="GummiRaccoon"]

Rickey Henderson.

He changed the sport single handedly no one was as above their peers as he was.

-Sun_Tzu-

Show me one person that had 50% more of anything in their #1 career stat than second place.

Tom Brady > Peyton ManningSilverbond

Aaron Rodgers > Tom Brady

MMA - Anderson Silva.V4LENT1NE

quake live e sports players
i am dead srs btw

and rapha and strenx

rapha cheats because he has God on his side (he is super religious and always wins dem clutch moments)

strenx cause he is like a much more experienced version of me. (SHAFT)

Given that professional wrestling is the only athletic related content that I actively follow, my candidates for GOAT would be Stone Cold Steve Austin (arguably the biggest star in Pro Wrestling history), "Nature Boy" Ric Flair and Lou Thesz.

[QUOTE="-Sun_Tzu-"][QUOTE="GummiRaccoon"]

Rickey Henderson.

He changed the sport single handedly no one was as above their peers as he was.

GummiRaccoon

Show me one person that had 50% more of anything in their #1 career stat than second place.

[QUOTE="hartsickdiscipl"]

[QUOTE="Silverbond"]Tom Brady > Peyton ManningDroidPhysX

Eli Manning > Tom Brady

Yeah, he's a tard. But he's a tard that beat the Patriots in 2 Super Bowls.

Given that professional wrestling is the only athletic related content that I actively follow, my candidates for GOAT would be Stone Cold Steve Austin (arguably the biggest star in Pro Wrestling history), "Nature Boy" Ric Flair and Lou Thesz.

freek666

[QUOTE="Silverbond"]Tom Brady > Peyton Manninghydr0_32

Aaron Rodgers > Tom Brady

[QUOTE="freek666"]

Given that professional wrestling is the only athletic related content that I actively follow, my candidates for GOAT would be Stone Cold Steve Austin (arguably the biggest star in Pro Wrestling history), "Nature Boy" Ric Flair and Lou Thesz.

Nuck81

You'll get quite a few that say The Rock as well.

[QUOTE="DroidPhysX"]

[QUOTE="hartsickdiscipl"]

Eli Manning > Tom Brady

hartsickdiscipl

Yeah, he's a tard. But he's a tard that beat the Patriots in 2 Super Bowls.

[QUOTE="Silverbond"]Tom Brady > Peyton Manninghartsickdiscipl

Eli Manning > Tom Brady