I'll go with Tiger .......... for his skills and the relationship he had with his father, that was something very special. I think we all wish and hope we can have that kind of bond with our kids.
Who is your favorite athlete and why ??
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I''ll go with Anna Kournikova... for her 'skills' and the relationship I'd have with her, that would be something special. I think we all wish and hope we could have that kind of bond FOR our kids. :SIB :SIB
i have no specific favorite....but i'm a fan of any athlete that respects their opponent, the fans, & the game that they're playing.....& that includes trash talking...
muhammad ali. he was a class act that never wavered from what he believed in. underneath all the showman antics was a very compassionate human being who risked everything even the possibility of jail for his beliefs. he chose to stick to his beliefs over the vietnam war even though he would have had a dicked assignment boxing for the army on tour. i fought in vietnam and discovered that true to his positions the draft was unfair. i was surrounded by poor and middle class young men that did not have the wherewithal to avoid the draft and i learned that in war the rich and favored classes stay home while the poor do the dying. nothing has changed either. yeh, its a volunteer army but those who volunteer for the most part see it as an opportunity to escape from their present conditions.
I like mohamed ali but a class act, showing up at a fighters house to call him abig gorilla and make fun of his "uncle tom" ways .And this was late enough that frazier or liston I'm not sure which it was but-he had to come down to shut him up tell him to go home, i even think ali had reporters there that night! not classy!!
On the basis of in game play, my favorite is Allen Iverson. He has so much heart, he plays hurt constantly, and his motor never stops.
We certainly have diff of opinions on definition of class act.
I'll take Walter Payton as my nominee for class act.
Myth: Most Vietnam veterans were drafted.
2/3 of the men who served in Vietnam were volunteers. 2/3 of the men who served in World War II were
Myth: The war was fought largely by the poor and uneducated.
Servicemen who went to Vietnam from well-to-do areas had a slightly elevated risk of dying because they were more likely to be pilots or infantry officers.
Vietnam Veterans were the best educated forces our nation had ever sent into combat. 79% had a high school education or better. (McCaffrey Papers)
I'll take Walter Payton as my nominee for class act.
Myth: Most Vietnam veterans were drafted.
2/3 of the men who served in Vietnam were volunteers. 2/3 of the men who served in World War II were
Myth: The war was fought largely by the poor and uneducated.
Servicemen who went to Vietnam from well-to-do areas had a slightly elevated risk of dying because they were more likely to be pilots or infantry officers.
Vietnam Veterans were the best educated forces our nation had ever sent into combat. 79% had a high school education or better. (McCaffrey Papers)
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I'm sure everybody gets a tear in their eye when sitting in the stands at a little league game and the person next to them is tearing their kid a new a-hole because he booted a ball. That's what I think of when I hear about Tiger and his dad. What a great relationship. Earl brainwashed Tiger so bad he doesn't know what real father-son relationships are like.
SixFive said:
Practice? are you not remembering practice? How can you put this guy as your fav. when he is a cancer in the locker room and annually becomes one of the worst teamates in the Assoc.
