Tough Athletes

[El Kabong]

Lebron James is a great athlete, but he is NOT tough. Who the fuck gets CARRIED off the field of play due to cramps? A soccer player wasting time? Maybe but you don't expect that kind of shit from a professional basketball player so my friends this thread is dedicated to the TOUGHEST athletes from the past and present I'll go ahead and start it off .....





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s946M878MxI

[Beanflicker]

Hockey has the toughest athletes outside of combat sports IMO. It's just an age-old culture of being tough and sucking it up. You're taking hits that are harder than football hits, and you have to jump in front of a piece of rubber flying 100mph. Rough rough game.

[Beanflicker]

Of course every sport has it's exceptions. There are wimps in hockey and football, just like there are tough guys in basketball and golf.

I'm not a basketball fan but I remember Steve Nash playing through broken noses, eyes swollen shut, ect.

[El Kabong]

Of course every sport has it's exceptions. There are wimps in hockey and football, just like there are tough guys in basketball and golf.

I'm not a basketball fan but I remember Steve Nash playing through broken noses, eyes swollen shut, ect.

Oh no doubt...typically the wimps don't last in hockey though.


Ben Hogan played after a car crash that almost killed him, Willie Pep fought after a plane crash that almost killed him, Tiger Woods played on 1 leg, Michael Jordan had "the flu game", Kellen Winslow had "The Epic in Miami", Willis Reed was a tough SOB.


I just want our forum members to appreciate the gutsy performances of athletes and cherish them because that shit with Lebron was ridiculous. I was taught that in sports you get carried off the field for 2 reasons and 2 reasons only #1 You win a huge game or you break some record or something and #2 You are physically unable to walk....anything other than that is disrespectful to the fans and the players.

LeBron is a great athlete but for shits sake....man up and WALK OFF THE COURT! Kobe Bryant tore his Achilles but he took 2 free throws and then walked off the court....THAT IS TOUGH!!!

[Beanflicker]

I guess you either have the heart or you don't.

I don't know a lot about basketball but I figure Lebron being as big and athletic as he is is used to having it his way, especially in a sport where you're not allowed to touch him.

A lot of boxers over the years really didn't have that heart, they had all the talent in the world but no heart to tough it out. So when you get a guy in boxing who has world class talent and balls of steel it's a beautiful thing. Guys like Ali, Ray Leonard, and dare I say PBF who fought JLC with a torn rotator cuff.

Some guys have that "put your head down and plough through it" attitude and some guys have the "lay down and die" attitude.

[Kirkland Laing]

Sometimes what looks like weakness can be explained by genuinely horrific nightmare scenarios.

[El Kabong]

Hockey has the toughest athletes outside of combat sports IMO. It's just an age-old culture of being tough and sucking it up. You're taking hits that are harder than football hits, and you have to jump in front of a piece of rubber flying 100mph. Rough rough game.

I just laced up the skates again after an 18 year hiatus....1st game I blocked a shot, took that slapshot right to the ribs the puck completely missed my pads and I doubt it was going maybe 60-70 mph if that but it left a nice little bruise on me and was a little tender for a while but it's hockey you deal with shit like that.


Hockey guys are tough as nails but also 100% about the TEAM and not about individual successes. It's one of those unwritten rules in the game.