Who did Casey Stengel call “the best one-legged player” he ever saw?
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Mickey Mantle works for radio trivia.
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Basketball players are [at times] considered to be the best athletes because of the required stamina, flexibility and strength required to be good.  So, yes it's good, everywhere but the knees and sometimes ankles.  I played for about 20 years (high school and college, plus post college (not pro)) and some mornings I can barely get out of bed.
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Sir Stanley Matthews, CBE (February 1, 1915 - February 23, 2000) was a football player, often regarded as one of the greats of the English game. Gaining the nicknames The Wizard of the Dribble and The Magician, Matthews retains his reputation as one of the finest dribblers of the ball in the history of association football. A teetotaller and vegetarian, he kept fit enough to play at the top level until he was 50 years old, the oldest player ever to play in England's top football division.
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one of my favorite quotes from the krukster\nwhen an female interviewer referred to him as an "athelete"\n"i'm not an athelete lady, i'm a ballplayer"\ni love it\nhe also once sold his jersey number to teammate mitch williams for a 24 pack of budweiser.
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Walter Payton - hands down.  \n\nNo one has ever had as much talent as he did.   He scored touchdowns running, receiving, passing and kicking.  He did kick a field goal and an extra point in an early game were Bob Thomas got injured.
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Probably Andre Johnson of the Houston Texans. I saw him play in a celebrity basketball game at the Cortez Hankton NFL Celebrity Weekend at Texas Southern University. He had some amazing dunks. Marcus Stroud of the Jacksonville Jaguars was there and he can get up there pretty good for a big man.
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Pete Rose is the best. I am a big fan of his and always will be. He was a great ball player. He should be in the Hall of Fame. He could have done worse. There are other ball players I think should be taken out because of what they did.
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Truth is, there are about 8 players in NBA history who have a legitimate argument to be called the best (or most dominant) player of all time...\n\nThey are:\n\n1) Wilt Chamberlain\n2) Bill Russell\n3) Kareem Abdul-Jabbar\n4) Larry Bird\n5) Magic Johnson\n6) Oscar Robertson\n7) Michael Jordan\n8) Shaquille O'Neal\n\nTim Duncan probably comes the closest to matching the skill level of these guys, in terms of fundamentals...but Duncan does not have a claim to be called the best ever...\n\nWilt was really the most dominant player ever (on BOTH ends of the court), and his basketball skills far exceeded those of Shaquille O'Neal. Although Jordan's strong suit is his scoring, his scoring feats really pale in comparison with Wilt.\n\nRussell led his team to 11 NBA titles in his 13 year career. Were Jordan around back then, he'd be just another guy who lost to the Celtic machine.\n\nJordan and Shaq are the only players on the above list who had the luxury of playing against what amounts to 'high school' players. The level of competition and overall skill levels of todays players is not as good as during, for example, the 1980s. But players today are adjusting to the way the NBA wants the game played. Traveling is never called, nor is 'palming' the ball (probably no one under 25 today even knows what 'palming the ball' even means...)\n\nThe All Defensive teams were not selected until after the 1969 season, so Wilt only made that team 3 or 4 times, but would have made it more often had there been such a thing in the '60s. So the idea that Jordan is the greatest defender ever because of his All Defensive number of selections is not well-founded.\n\nIf anyone thinks that todays players are more highly skilled than players of the 60s 70s and 80s, we need only look as far as the U.S. recent international performances, or lack thereof. Teams from Europe are beating our NBA "All Star" teams on a regular basis the last few years, because they (the Europeans) are still playing the game the way the U.S. played it in the 60s and 70s, when the U.S. truly dominated the world in basketball. They have taken the way we taught them the game and are now using that style against us. The U.S. international teams have been pathetic during the 21st century.\n\nMcGrady is not even close to being the best player of all time... there's no argument that one can make to place him anywhere near the company of the guys on this list. Being able to dunk doesn't make you the greatest player of all time.  If you think T-Mac is one of the two greatest players ever, you obviously haven't watched very much basketball.
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Shaquille Oneal and Dewayne Wade are the strongest and the best in the NBA. Plus I love Dewayne Wade. In almost every game Oneal and Wade came through to the very end scoring and blocking. These two together are the best!
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I know a football player Steve Knight however.  He played for the University of Maine and was one of the states all-time leading rushers.  He may have played semi-pro or been invited to NFL training camps.
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arguebly george best .alas! this greatest of all time grearts is no more . tears come down we could not see this man is not in action at present . i wish he should have born now . when we see some of his older film , i feel what a player he was ,possing abandant of skill and brilliances . we remember only maradona, pele, boby charlton, boby moor, but nobody seems bother about this creature of god who once ruled the english and european circuit only but never played any world cup .
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has to be melo. Marcus Camby was never great before melo arived, melo just raised Camby's game.
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Mia Hamm is definately the best there is. I love her and look up to her as an extremely skilled player and awesome role model.
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Natalie Casey.\n\n\n\nSHOW ME THE TEN POINTS.
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Geroge Hagi from team Romania.  This guy was AWESOME!  When the World Cup came to America in '94, he tore it up out there!  I went to a World Cup game and saw Romania play, and it was GREAT!  Chances are, those who say Pele, are saying him because that's the only soccer person they actually know.  I'm not saying Pele is bad at all....he's great.  I just think Hagi really played the sport in no other way than anyone else.
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New York Giants\n\nReason: Tiki Barber (The Real League MVP)
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Steve Yserman. He took Scotty Bowman's advice and changed his game 180 degrees in order to win championships. And yet, he plays with a quiet dignity that even his opponants respect - case in point, the number 19 and the Candadian Olympic Team. \n\nIf you get a chance to watch him this year, do so. This is the final act in a solid career between stat's, leadership and citizenship that deserves almost instant Hall of Fame induction.