Favourite sports pesonality ever

[chewyuk]

Roberto Duran
and cricket commentator Brian Johnston, just to hear that awesome ...
'..aggers, stop it aggers..' moment

[G_Man]

Daley Thomson double decathlon Olympic champion and former world record holder. THAT takes some doing.
He always comes across as a sound bloke and doesn't seem to have been well rewarded for his amazing achievements, like Dame Kelly Holmes and Lord Coe.
I once saw him on a Pro-celeb golf TV show. He went round with a 7-iron. No driver, no sand wedge, no putter just a 7-iron and he did well.

He deserves more respect and more reward for his achievements

[saveferris]

For me it would have to be Imran Khan. The guy was an amazing leader who took his team to the top. I have had the pleasure of meeting Wasim Akram (who told me he knew my dad, freaked me out), and many other Pakistan players as well as Viv Richards.

My favourite memory was during lunch on a day's play in Southampton a few years ago instead of eating sandwiches with the other players in the pavilion, Inzamam is having a curry with some fans in the car park.

[fah-q]

Bernard Cribbins, ooh a fine golfer he was.

[Resu]

John Charles for me, Still loved by Juventus fans. He's one person I would have loved to have met. I was in the same room as him once though in one of those Football Dinner Speech things

was too scared to go up to him! he was twice as big as me!

I`ve met him once, at Anfield. He was going some charity work and met our group of norwegian reds. The next day travelled with our bus to Peter Lorimers pub in Leeds.
Happy days.

[JRG]

Jesse Owens - would loved to have asked him what it was like working it up Adolf and the Third Reich at the Berlin Olympics.

[bazza76]

since you said with the exception of past LFC players.
It has to be Shankly for me, for really obvious reasons, id just love to sample some of his infectiousness personality, as a charachter, without being biased, he has to be the all time great football charachter.
Mohamad Ali would be another.
Also, i admire what Lance Armstrong has done, that is if he wasnt on dugs.

[dww]

Rubin " the Hurricane" Carter.

I know quite a few won't know who he is, some will but will know little about his personality.

I've met the man, he's a hugely impressive character. It was a great experience to sit and talk with him, one I'll never forget.

I take it that is the guy who inspired the Bob Dylan song and the film. If so I have to say it is difficult to get a read of him. From what I have read (I did a bit of research into his case after i read Larry Slomans book about the Roling Thunder revue where Dylan championed his cause but came to feel he was being manipulated by him) he seems a very interesting and charismatic character but I wonder if it wasn't for his problems with the law anyone would have heard of him as a sportsman. I guess this is a thread about personalities though.

[Anfield Mole]

Wasim Akram

[PTP]

I'm a bit a golfer - so I'm going with Nick Faldo. Easily the greatest european golfer of all time, and nerves of steel. The yanks were **** scared of him in the Ryder Cup. Watched him play a few times quite close up and he is a really nice guy, just portrayed like a **** because he hates the media

[andyinswinton]

I met Phil Taylor a couple of years ago and he's a top bloke.

For those not in the know, he is the 13 time darts champion of the world and the best player in his 'sport' ever.

[Shaggy]

I met Phil Taylor a couple of years ago and he's a top bloke.

For those not in the know, he is the 13 time darts champion of the world and the best player in his 'sport' ever.

He's obviously the supreme darts player, but I have to laugh when I continually hear him blabbering on about getting fit and how he's "in the best shape of his life".

Off topic slightly, I've met John Lowe a few times and he's a right miserable *******.

[univofchicago]

1) Michael Jordan

2) Zinedine Zidane

3) Diego Maradona

4) Andre Agassi

5) Mike Tyson

6) Pedro Martinez

7) Tiger Woods

8) Roger Federer

9) Thierry Henry

10) Chan Ho Park

[andyinswinton]

Ali would be the one that I'd love to meet.

[ningnangnong]

Shane Webcke

Steve Waugh - read his autobiography if you haven't, great read.

Roger Federer


Speedy, i'm surprised you haven't said Carl Veart.