Success in Sports

DIVIDED BY

Number of Fucks Given


Meaning, athletes who were highly successful without giving
many fucks about the sports they played


Bo Jackson has to be #1 all-time, both sports really


I'd throw Robert Smith and Ricky Williams in the top 10-15


Who else? What other sports?


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Literally the best I don't give a fuck in the history of sports.

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He gave tons of fucks about boxing

I see your point, I think you just missed the spirit of the question

Or maybe I didn't make it clear what I was talking about

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He studied his craft to the point where he knew how many times his teammates' shots spun in the air before getting to the rim. And if you look at any of his highlight reels it's Rodman diving everywhere for rebounds and loose balls.

>He studied his craft to the point where he knew how many
>times his teammates' shots spun in the air before getting to
>the rim. And if you look at any of his highlight reels it's
>Rodman diving everywhere for rebounds and loose balls.

He was a very gifted athlete and basketball player and played
very hard on the court

But basketball was never very important to him

I'm inclined to say he deserves to be on this list

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Dre makes no apologies for his own eccentricities. �I was young, and searching, trying to find myself,� he says. �Never did.�-- Andre B

interesting / marketable / worthy of discussing with the press?

Along with his hair color and piercings I'm sure his self-proclaimed ball-rotation OCD makes him some kind of Zen master of basketball?

and yeah he was mainly good at rebounding and defense, things which take a lot of EFFORT to be good at.

Do you think he would have been able to bone Madonna?

that dude had all types of extracurricular pursuits

I think he cared about basketball, but he cared about it about as much I care about one of the rec leagues I'm in. Except they got paid a lot of money to do so and they were really good.

They really care about it when they're on the court/field, but in the grand scheme of things, it's behind or at the same level as getting pussy, partying, reading, philosophizing, or various other things on your priority list. While for someone like Kobe, basketball is #1-10.

>I think he cared about basketball, but he cared about it
>about as much I care about one of the rec leagues I'm in.
>Except they got paid a lot of money to do so and they were
>really good.
>
>They really care about it when they're on the court/field, but
>in the grand scheme of things, it's behind or at the same
>level as getting pussy, partying, reading, philosophizing, or
>various other things on your priority list. While for someone
>like Kobe, basketball is #1-10.


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Denominator is strong, though

Surprisingly, I'd say Shaq probably has a pretty high ratio

His denominator is significantly lower than any other hall of fame
caliber center

His numerator is among the 5 best centers ever

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But he gave a fuck.

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was shaq really pressed about basketball, making his game better?

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I think his MVP season sorta proves that. He gave a fuck enough. Had he had the Kobe/Bill Russell mindset he woulda been the GOAT. But he "settled" for top 10. Still, he gave a fuck.

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I have no doubt that he loved playing basketball, else he would fall into the Ralph Samson-level of (NBA) underachievers, but was he obsessed like most of the other guys in the Top 10-15 with him? Hell no.

Guess you could debate there were times he gave many fucks, but there were also times when he gave 0

Deion Sanders, maybe?

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Dude was never much for fitness, when he was a big offensive star he deferred a lot, at some point he decided to move off the block and become more of a stretch 4, he routinely bagged games during the regular season and he had the ultimate IDGAF! demeanor.

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you don't get all those techs without giving a fuck.

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>you don't get all those techs without giving a fuck.

In terms of knowledge of the game


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my five favorite players ever and i followed his career from age 16 onward.

still, we are kind moving the goalposts around here. every pro is a "basketball junkie," i hate that term. he was extremely smart. so was the worm. that doesn't mean they gave any more of a fuck, does it?

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>my five favorite players ever and i followed his career from
>age 16 onward.
>
>still, we are kind moving the goalposts around here. every pro
>is a "basketball junkie," i hate that term. he was extremely
>smart. so was the worm. that doesn't mean they gave any more
>of a fuck, does it?


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i have seen him answer questions as well as pick up technicals with just a stare.

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Mostly because it is the sport you can go the furthest on pure talent alone.

Football players tend to quit early if they don't give a fuck and don't want to deal with all the pain.

Baseball takes such discipline to become a great hitter that natural talent just isn't enough.

That's the most amazing part about Bo too, he didn't give a fuck at some of the hardest things there are to do.

I might put Damon Stoudamire on this list too.

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but yeah, him and nick young are up there on potential alone.
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Yes, he qualifies, but the "success" part of the equation petered out for him.

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*Jews you*

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His game with the all creativity seems like a guy who
lives and breathes it

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"working on his game"

like he might have spent some summers hooping in the gym or the park or whatever, but this was his first summer actually training to improve aspects of the way he plays the game.

that aspect of the game? shooting.

here's the link:
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-ball-dont-lie/jamal-crawford-only-started-practicing-shooting-232948543--nba.html

After 12 NBA seasons and with a firm reputation as a pure shooter, Clippers guard Jamal Crawford tried something during the off-season he had never done before. He practiced shooting.

It's astonishing to think that Crawford, who is the NBA's career leader with 34 four-point plays and ranks 21st all-time with 1,387 three-pointers, didn't routinely spend his summers in stuffy gyms trying to perfect his shot.

"This summer was actually the first summer I worked on my game. I usually just play off of raw talent," he said Thursday after the Clippers' practice. "But I just wanted to work on something and be in great shape coming into camp. I came here right after Labor Day, which is the earliest I've ever gone to any team in the summer, and all the guys were here, committed to getting better.

"Now it's part of my lifestyle, working out and being here, shooting and getting shots up. It gives you more confidence that if you miss one or two, you know you've been working on it every single day and your teammates have confidence because they see it as well."

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His game is far too creative for me to believe he wasn't
hooping every summer in some fashion

You don't develop those handles and those quirks that he
has unless you're consistently playing against someone

I can definitely see the stuff about his shot, though

Makes sense



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and has a career FG% below 41% never bothered to practice his shooting technique in the offseason.

it is simultaneously impressive and infuriating, which I suppose is kinda the point of this post.

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...decide to start working on their game and being in shape only after they stink it up for the Blazers.

Ugh.

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Probably can make it in the HOF.

And if he'd walk up to give his HOF speech and trips. He's gonna lay on the ground for at least 3 minutes.

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I've said it often: Vince is the best pussy ever (no homo)

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Two-time major winner

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He just quit like *snap* that. Didnt give a fuck about any rushing records, super bowls (obv not the Lions, but he wouldn't even entertain the thought of playing out the contract and then going elsewhere), or anything.

"Oh you're not going to trade me?


I quit.


See ya"

and then he faxed his retirement letter in to the WICHITA EAGLE.


For all the things Barry was, he was also a quitter.
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That dude really hated playing basketball, and he was a very respectable big man.

I mean, I know the 'Serena doesn't work hard enough' meme is by and large a construction from the old & white tennis media (when they ran out of other points to criticize her), but she did come to a number of slams unprepared (and sometimes on the chubbier side of 'thick') and still won them.

in any case, her numerator alone puts her in the convo.

You gave a compelling argument

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There are years when she was positively unbeatable, and ranked 5th in the world, because she simply didn't play enough tournaments to get the number 1 ranking.

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Even if you argue that he cared, he certainly didn't care more
than your average-good wide receiver and yet is without
question among the 5 best wide receivers ever

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by most accounts he was a quick study, but you got the idea he'd be just as happy fishing all day.

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The 49ers did a profile on him where they went to his hometown, talked to him and his best friend, HS coach. It aired on whichever channel airs the 49ers press conferences- comcast sportsnet?

dude gives A LOT of fucks. more respect to him.

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But hell, what do I know?

because as a reciever, you have to care somewhat to learn playbooks and run routes well so as not to mess up the quaterback and other recievers, but weren't there self-admited reports of him not giving 100% while he was wearing the Silver and Black? I guess it's debatable with him because no one truly knows how apatheic he was while he played with teams other than the Raiders.

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