Who had the GOAT work ethic and ambition?

Who had/has the GOAT work ethic and ambition to be the best?

  • Michael Jordan

    Votes: 50 44.2%
  • Larry Bird

    Votes: 3 2.7%
  • Kobe Bryant

    Votes: 48 42.5%
  • Jerry West

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Floyd Mayweather Jr.

    Votes: 31 27.4%
  • Mike Tyson

    Votes: 3 2.7%
  • Muhammad Ali

    Votes: 11 9.7%
  • Rocky Marciano

    Votes: 1 0.9%
  • Tiger Woods

    Votes: 5 4.4%
  • Barry Bonds

    Votes: 4 3.5%
  • Alex Rodriguez

    Votes: 1 0.9%
  • Tom Brady

    Votes: 14 12.4%
  • Peyton Manning

    Votes: 4 3.5%
  • Jerry Rice

    Votes: 26 23.0%
  • OJ Simpson

    Votes: 1 0.9%

  • Total voters
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Masters of Habit: The Deliberate Practice and Training of Jerry Rice

If you split Jerry Rice's career in half into ages 23-31 and ages 32-42, here's what it would look like:

Jerry Rice 23-31:

All time TDs: 118 (5th all-time)
All time receptions: 708 (45th all-time)
All time receiving yards: 11,776 (29th all-time)
Yards/game: 84.1 (5th all-time)
Rec/game: 5.1 (in line with Brandin Cooks, Amari Cooper, A.J. Green from this past season)
Eight Pro Bowls, seven First Team All-Pros

Jerry Rice 32-42:

TDs: 79 (27th all-time)
Receptions: 841 (27th all-time)
Receiving yards: 11,119 (34th all-time)
Yards/game: 68.2 (30th all-time)
Rec/game: 5.2 (in line with Brandin Cooks, Amari Cooper, A.J. Green from this past season)
Five Pro Bowls, three First Team All-Pros

Accolades included, both Jerry Rices would be top 25 wide receivers of all time and Hall of Famers :wow: do your wind sprints
Yeezus :gucci:
I'd love to see this kind of comparison between a lot of those named.
 

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I read

I read they both had extreme work ethics.
Tyson had it early in his career but stoped working hard after Cus died. Hard to compare him to guys like Kobe who put that work in their full careers. A Rod been on steroids for so long it’s hard to know how hard he ever worked.
 

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Russell Westbrook? He went from being like a 3-star recruit to what he is today. Karl Malone too; his workouts as he got into his mid and late thirties are legendary.

This is NOT to discredit the likes of Jordan, Kobe, Tiger, everyone else on that list. But personally I'm leaning with Jerry Rice.

Jerry was running just as fast in the fourth quarter of an NFC championship game as he was on the first snap of the regular season. For not having outstanding speed (though he was fast enough) or being physically imposing, he had stamina, core strength, and agility in spades. He became impossible to predict going into a route; in his NFL Top 100 video they talk about how defenders had no idea what he was going to do because all of his routes looked the same for the first five yards. Jerry Rice was a machine.



Masters of Habit: The Deliberate Practice and Training of Jerry Rice

If you split Jerry Rice's career in half into ages 23-31 and ages 32-42, here's what it would look like:

Jerry Rice 23-31:

All time TDs: 118 (5th all-time)
All time receptions: 708 (45th all-time)
All time receiving yards: 11,776 (29th all-time)
Yards/game: 84.1 (5th all-time)
Rec/game: 5.1 (in line with Brandin Cooks, Amari Cooper, A.J. Green from this past season)
Eight Pro Bowls, seven First Team All-Pros

Jerry Rice 32-42:

TDs: 79 (27th all-time)
Receptions: 841 (27th all-time)
Receiving yards: 11,119 (34th all-time)
Yards/game: 68.2 (30th all-time)
Rec/game: 5.2 (in line with Brandin Cooks, Amari Cooper, A.J. Green from this past season)
Five Pro Bowls, three First Team All-Pros

Accolades included, both Jerry Rices would be top 25 wide receivers of all time and Hall of Famers :wow: do your wind sprints

Jerry got Wilt-like stats

for example, just his 1st 114 games would put him 7th all-time in receiving'

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No homo but considering the way he still looks today compared to his contemporaries of the same age, Shannon Sharpe probably belongs in this conversation.
 
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