The greatest 3 who ever lived.

[SlimTrae]

If you could travel back in time and meet (3) people who would they be and why?

If I could only choose 3? just 3? damn.

3. Bruce Lee . Have to get me some lessons & he seemed to be cool as shit to kick it with.
2. Jesus. Any man who is still being talked about 2 thousand years later has to be a great orator.

1. Imhotep. Any man who built something that took 4 thousand years to duplicate- is the shit. The father of medicine Hippocrates called him the god of medicine. He was deified-yet artifacts prove he is not a mythical dude. He was a real human.

[El Kabong]

1. W.C. Fields, greatest comedian of all time

And with 2. & 3. I'm at a loss. Do I select an athlete, to tell me great tales of glories past? A thinker, to open up my mind to their ideas? A great leader, to learn more about their successes and how they were achieved?

I might have 10, but 3?

[walrus]

I will leave out religious as that would be my top three so I will say and this is assuming since I have the ability to time travel I'll be able to have a conversation with them

1 Ghengis Khan, always been fascinated with him, read so much about him despite so little being known

2 Tesla I'd explain to him that the government is withholding his secrets and convince him to give me the plans for some cheap energy so I could make a billion, I'll promise him I'll give some to charity.

3 one of the US founding fathers, either Madison or Washington, probably Madison. I'd go armed with documentation about police action, government action and supreme court decisions and I'd be very interested to hear his take on things. I would wait until the constitution is ratified as it wouldn't be fair to the guy to expect him to fix the ills of the US.

[SugarBoxing]

0. Sugar Ray Robinson
1. Ali
2. Tyson
3. Roy Jones

[walrus]

0. Sugar Ray Robinson
1. Ali
2. Tyson
3. Roy Jones

@NVSemin it was suggested that you give meaning for each encounter.

[Andre]

Thoth Hermes Trismegistus, the founder of Egyptian learning, the Wise Man of the ancient world, gave to the priests and philosophers of antiquity the secrets which have been preserved to this day in myth and legend. These allegories and emblematic figures conceal the secret formulæ for spiritual, mental, moral, and physical regeneration commonly known as the Mystic Chemistry of the Soul (alchemy). These sublime truths were communicated to the initiates of the Mystery Schools, but were concealed from the profane. The latter, unable to understand the abstract philosophical tenets, worshiped the concrete sculptured idols which were emblematic of these secret truths. The wisdom and secrecy of Egypt are epitomized in the Sphinx, which has preserved its secret from the seekers of a hundred generations. The mysteries of Hermeticism, the great spiritual truths hidden from the world by the ignorance of the world, and the keys of the secret doctrines of the ancient philosophers, are all symbolized by the Virgin Isis. Veiled from head to foot, she reveals her wisdom only to the tried and initiated few who have earned the right to enter her sacred presence, tear from the veiled figure of Nature its shroud of obscurity, and stand face to face with the Divine Reality.

Da vinci

Jacques de Molay