Your Top 5 Sporting Heroes?

[Mick Mac]

Top 5 All Time Sporting Heroes

Here are mine for starters:

1: Severiano Ballesteros (golf)

2: George Best (footie)

3: Jack Nicklaus (golf)

4: Mohammad Ali (box clever)

5: Alex Higgins (snookie)

[mockney piers]

1. Bobby Moore

2. Viv Richards

3. Paolo Di Canio

4. Trevor Brooking

5. Tony Cottee & Frank McAvennie

Edited, because Brooking's class and nature wins over Pearce's honesty and bravery, and the addition of a sixth name as they were lesser men alone than they were as a pair.

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Bobby Moore

Mohammed Ali

Trevor Brooking

Frank MaCavennie

Frankie Detori

[lozzyloz]

Mohammed Ali

Ayrton Senna

Jim Clarke

Michael Schumacher

Pele

[Marmora Man]

Graham Gooch - the Sarn't Major of English cricket

Ian Botham - for his "Boy's Own" return to cricket after ban for smoking marijuana. (Wicket with 2nd ball)

David Gower - for perfect strokes combined with a properly irreverent attitude to training (flying a light plane over his practising colleagues)

W G Grace - probably the first sporting superstar. On being bowled in an exhibition match said "they came to see me bat not you bowl - not out"

Keith Fletcher - for his many brilliant rearguard innings saving England.

[SteveT]

Jimmy White:- Snooker magician who played the best game ever seen, in the semi final with Alex Higgins.

George Best:- Most apt name for the most magical footballer I have ever seen, on a sticky muddy pitch.

Jacques Anquetille and Eddie Mercx:- Won the Tour de France 5 times.

Emilio Duran (Hands of Stone):- won world titles at three different weights.

Steve Redgrave:- Enduring rowing champion.

[Keef]

Much as I'd like to say the likes of Ali, I shall stick to people who've been doing it in my lifetime... Robbie Fowler, most natural goal scorer of a generation, desperately unlucky with injuries. Ayrton Senna, when F1 was worth watching. Nigel Benn, just loved watching him fight, he'd rather get knocked out than take a backward step! Shane Warne, rock and roll bowling. Andre Agassi, proper tennis player beating all the big serving boring guys.

[matthew123]

Emlyn Hughes

Pele

Steven Gerrard

Ian Rush

Kenny Dalglish

[AllforNun]

Hurricane Higgins

Paul Gasgoine

Adrian Mutu

Dock ellis

John Daly

[Jeremy]

Jeremy Bates

Pedro Diniz

Eric Crumble

Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards

Princess Anne

[Mick Mac]

You can't argue with Princess Anne. She should be in everyones top 5.

[Keef]

Just want to say that Steven Gerrard will walk straight in to my list once he retires. For the time being I just want him to go on and achieve lots more...

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Billy Bremner

Ian Botham

Harvey Smith

Ludmilla Touresceva (sic)

Alan Wells

[Annasfield]

Damon Hill

Kenny Dalglish

Robbie Fowler

Martin Johnson

Steven Gerrard

[SimonM]

Fred Trueman

Geoff Boycott

Darren Gough

Tony Currie

Mohammed Ali

[Ted Max]

Mickey Weir

Sachin Tendulkar

John McEnroe

Andy Irvine

David Gower

[Jimbob]

Lance Armstrong - say what you like but the Tour hasn,t been the same without him.

Kieran McGeeney - inspirational CHB, in the golden age of Armagh football.

D.J.Carey - some say Ring was the best, but when scores were needed D.J.came up with the goods.

Barry McGuigan - only one world title was a travesty, but some unforgettable nights in the Kings Hall, with Barry,s da, leading the crowd in Danny Boy, left not a dry eye in the house, and the opposition beaten before the fight started.

Eric Cantona - total space cadet, crap poet, even worse at martial arts, but sheer genius with the ball.

[Brendan]

David Boon ? For his drinking and moustache wearing abilities.

Shane Warne ? For being the most innovative and entertaining bowler of modern times despite being Australian.

Rodney Mullen ? For essentially inventing modern skateboarding.

John McEnroe ? For shouting a lot.

Diego Maradona ? For infuriating just about everybody.

[mlteenie]

Gavin Hastings

Eddy Merckx

Alan Wells

Mark Spitz

My son (cos he's a great swimmer and I'm not!)

[Mick Mac]

My Irish Top 5:

George Best - the best footballer the English league has ever seen

Padraig Harrington - first european winner of the US PGA since 1930s

Alex Higgins - the original entertainer

Willie John McBride - the captain of the most successful Lions team ever in South Africa 1974

Roy Keane - the best midfielder the premiership has seen

[Michael Palaeologus]

Billie the Fish

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Um - thats it.

They aren't "Heroes" - thats a brave person.

They are quite good a running around a bit. Mostly.

[Ted Max]

Actors = they're quite good at standing around speaking a bit

Artists - they're quite good at drawing and colouring in a bit

Engineers - they're quite good at observing known laws of physics a bit

Doctors - they're quite good atlearning lots of stuff and applying it a bit

[Ted Max]

My point being, unless your point is purely semantic, you can reduce anything to an absurdity. But it's surely legitimate to have admiration for people within a paticular field you are interested in. As long as some element of perspective is maintained, of course.

[SteveT]

You might have said Dr Roger Bannister, Ted Max.

[taper]

Steve ovett

Martin johnson

Jimmy sirrel

Joe Calzaghe

mike hailwood