Favorite Athlete By Sport

[MikeandRaph87]

Just for fun name your favorite active and/or retired athlete from various sports. We can see where we match up and maybe get to know each other better.

Baseball:
Active-Criag Kimbrel

Retired: Hitter- Fred McGriff/Pitcher-Tom Glavine

NFL:
Active: Peyton Manning

Retired: Darryl Green

NBA:
Active: Tim Duncan

NHL:
Retired: Wayne Gretsky

Tennis:

Retired: Pete Sampras

Golf:
Active: Phil Mickelson

Retired: Arnold Palmer

Wrestling:
Active: Roman Reigns

Retired: Hulk Hogan

NASCAR:
Active:
Jeff Gordon

Retired: Wendell Scott

Boxing:
Active: Manny Pacquiao

Retired: Muhammad Ali


No real interest in boxing,hockey, or racing,but I have preferences. The rest I am a fan of some level. What about you all? Cooments on my choices or each others in further user's post in this thread?

[shuriken]

Just gonna put the sports I follow
NBA- Active Steph Curry, Jimmy Butler
Retired- Michael Jordan, John Stockton

Football (American) Active Tom Brady, Clay Mathews
Retired Brian Urlacher

Tennis (Retired) Andre Agassi
(Active) Serena Williams, Roger Federer

Wrassling (Retired) Bret Hart, Edge, Kurt Angle
(Active) Tie between Dolph Ziggler, Daniel Bryant and Cody Rhodes

Boxing (Retired) Roy Jones Jr.(he's semi retired), Julio Cesar Chavez, Erik Morales
(Active) Terrence Crawford, Kieth Thurman, Canelo Alvarez

[Slade]

Hmm...

Michael Jordan. My favorite of all time.

Mike Tyson

Chipper Jones. I grew up watching the Braves with my grandma

Brock Lesnar

Chuck Liddell

Muhammad Ali

[MsMarvelDuckie]

Pretty easy, here. Mine is whichever horse is the favorite to win the Triple Crown in any given year. I almost cried last year when California Chrome lost the Belmont.

[Jephael]

A few years back my elementary school friend Jayne got me interested in Roller Derby league in Philadelphia and I not only became a fan but I made some friends with the leagers. I'd say my favorite player is Goldy. Here's her stats: http://phillyrollerderby.com/player/goldy/

[Powder]

If Kung-Fu is a sport, my favorite athlete is Jackie Chan.

[Wingnut]

If Kung-Fu is a sport, my favorite athlete is Jackie Chan.
You win on technicality...Pretty sure they (China) have a national team.

Baseball - Yadier Molina (active)
Stan Musial, Ken Griffey Jr. (retired)

Basketball - Stefan Curry, Tim Duncan
Jordan, Magic, Bird

Boxing - Roy Jones Jr. (I was born in Pensacola, there is no 2nd or 3rd place :lol: )

Football (American) - JJ Watt, Le'Veon Bell
Barry Sanders, Marshall Faulk

Tennis - Roger Federer
Andre Agassi, Bjorn Borg, Fabrice Santoro

MotoGP - Valentino Rossi, Nicky Hayden
Randy Mamola, Mick Doohan

Never followed hockey that much, but an honorable mention to Wayne Gretzky. I'm sure he can sleep now.

[Kanon]

I don´t really follow any kind of sport in tv.

The only thing I watch sometimes is snooker.
My fav. is Neil Robertson (the thunder from down under :lol:)

[MikeandRaph87]

Hmm...

Michael Jordan. My favorite of all time.

Mike Tyson

Chipper Jones. I grew up watching the Braves with my grandma

Brock Lesnar

Chuck Liddell

Muhammad Ali

Braves fan since the age of 9 because of the local minor league affiliate, the TBS Superstation, and my dad was a fan since he was kid. I never got on board the Crazy Train with Chipper but respected him. McGriff was more my kind of hitter.

Wingnut, what about Roman Reigns or the Uso brothers as they were born in raised in your local Pensacola, Florida area.

[Guitar_Raph]

Football: JJ Watt/Deion Sanders
Basketball; Dirk Nickvowski (Mavericks)/Hakeem Olajuwon
Baseball; Jose Cruz
Bowling (yes PBA bowling); Jason Belmonte/Earl Anthony

[CaliperCat]

Football: Peyton Manning. He is one of the very few football players I can respect and admire (although the Broncos did pick up a kid from my school in the draft, so I'll be keeping my eye on him).

NASCAR: Dale Earnhardt, Jr. and Brad Keselowski. Truex drives for the home-state team, though, so he ranks pretty highly as well. L.O.A.T.H.E. Danica, although I guess she is getting better.

Love American Pharoah to bits.

[Redeemer]

Baseball: Ken Griffey Jr.
Basketball: Lebron James
Football: Bret Farve
NHL: Brenden Shanahan
UFC: Chuck Lydel


Those are off the top of my head.