If you could be the best in the world at any sport, which one would you choose?
>>69326810
doing your mom
>>69326810
Football.
baseball, specifically a closer or middle inning reliever. You can make like $4-$10m per year pitching 1 or 2 innings every 2nd or 3rd game. Lots of pressure, and if you dont perform you get sent down, but fuck, seems like a pretty sweet gig to me
>>69326810
big dick contest if you know what i mean
basketball, whippin all the niggas, nigga
Dota 2
>>69326810
Football or Boxing
>>69326810
Staying alive
Formula 1
>>69326914
>boxing
Do you want brain damage?
>>69326969
>Best in the world
>Implying niggas can even hit me
>>69326831
/thread
Baseball would give you the longest career but basketball would probably be the most fun.
Any sport with big money at stake.Not arsed which one.
Baseball so i can be rich
golf
NFL Kicker
Olympic Wrestler
Gimmicky MLB relief pitcher
Soccer defenseman
Downhill MTB racer
Any of those would be sick and you wouldn't be totally fucked up mentally afterwards
golf
>>69327052
>>69327055
these guys know what's up
Tennis. America needs another great in the men's division.
cricket. i don't know anything about it but i have a thing for paki chicks.
>>69326810
Tennis.
The immediate answer that comes to me is football, but frankly... I don't like the fact you can always lose (because the team sucks) even if you're the best.
Dota 2
>>69326831
>>69326923
These to be honest
>inb4 some autist answers "chess"
>>69326810
Which ever would bring me the most money and fame while simultaneously doing the least damage to my health.
football, even if i never play it pro-level i would still impress everyone in local games
tiddlywinks
League of Legends
>>69326923
This is my instant reaction but then I realize just being the best racer doesn't insure any victories because you might end up driving for like manor or something.
Basketball, and show the nigs that the white man reigns supreme
Tennis
The favourite seems to win 9 times out of 10 in Tennis, so you could be the GOAT in results as well as talent.
American football as a quarterback
Just cause it would be funny if the best player wasnt even american. I would make sure to talk shit how easy the sport is and how I'm not even trying.
Though I might get shot if I was too big of an asshole
>>69327367
>Though I might get shot if I was too big of an asshole
only if you are black
Basketball. All Dat glorious sneaker money
>>69327243
Yeah but look at Alonso's wage because everyone knows hes the best. Top class vag and you only work every other weekend. Best job
>>69326831
Which one?
Beach volleyball
>>69327558
Soccer gets you more pussy
100m sprint
Fuck you nignogs. It's time for the whites to dominate.
baseball, easily. travel all the time, make a couple million dollars a year, slam world-class gine at the first thought, hit home runs, be a community hero, make kids smile, and pull off the occasional sick defensive play
plus nobody seems to give a shit what baseball players say on twitter, so even that's home free
Golf
>comfy schedule
>megabucks
>long career
>relative to other sports, easy on the body
>travel the world
>dont have to stay in top physical condition
>its just fucking golf
>can also make extra $$$ with course design
/180/
>>69326999
Yeah, look how that turned out for Ali and Joe Louis.
Horse Racing
Would be fun to BTFO manlets at the only sport they can compete in.
>>69326810
>first overall hyped as fuck 5'11" 30 year old whitey
>drafted to expansion sonics
>ass blast /sp/ with obnoxious fans
>ass blast blacks by conquering """"""""their"""""""" sport
>>69327671
>be irrelevant (literally be nobody) as soon as you go abroad
Not good.
Poker
Play at the world's most luxurious resorts
Brilliant effort:reward ratio
Choose when and where to play
Don't have to retire at 35 due to physical fatigue
The correct answer is golf
>>69327901
too much luck involved
>>69327901
>run really bad
>be broke
Also it's not a "sport" lel
>>69327930
Do cute girls like Golfers, though?
Porn
>>69327821
why would you want to go abroad when you live in America? all of your women come here anyway.
Tennis/Golf/Boxing
Big money
>>69327954
Rich girls do.
>>69327940
Poker is mainly a game of skill and probabilities, but it's true you can run bad and lose everything even while being the best in the world.
>>69327940
The best players in the world make their own luck :^)
>>69327947
The best player in the world wouldn't be susceptible to a super long bad run.
>>69327901
Except it requires a motherfuckton of effort and studying to even get to the point of being statistically break even at poker. And even if you're the best in the world, playing perfect poker, you could still lose millions for a year straight (playing scare or lowering your aggression means you're going to be making mistakes and not making mathematically sound decisions, even if it helps curb your losses).
Although this is a rather extreme example, de to variance I could flip a coin and get heads 500 times in a row. Extremely unlikely, but it could happen, thats just probability. Downswings are extremely common in poker even if you aren't making mistakes. Like, I love the game, but you'd have to be sick in the head to want to do it professionally.
>>69327974
>why would you want to go abroad when you live in America?
For a ton of reasons, including paying less taxes (or no tax at all).
>all of your women come here anyway.
'no'
>>69328030
taxes don't matter when you've got baseball money. and don't try to act like euro women don't love new york. i live here, i know the truth.
The obvious answer would be football because its the most popular sport in the world.
Also, I would play for Chelsea to ensure the bad guys win and to upset /sp/
Heavyweight Boxing (Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson, etc)
>>69328076
Wrong and wrong.
>Eduardo Saverin is one of the co-founders of Facebook. As of 2015, he has a net worth of $7.2 billion
>In what was seen as a move to avoid US taxes, Saverin renounced his American citizenship in September 2011. He avoided an estimated $700 million in capital gains taxes
And NYC has three times less international visitors than domestic visitors.
>>69328299
All the best end up monged and poor
>>69327215
>NA
Big dreams
>>69328316
>All the best end up monged and poor
>who is mayweather
inb4 mayweather isn't the one of best
>>69328346
He said Heavyweights, you bellend
Golf is the most luxurious and you get to set your own schedule. Plus practicing is a breeze compared to sparring or fitness drills
Mmm not a big golf fan but all the people saying golf have a good point. Especially right nowsince there is no dominant golfer. You'd basically be Tiger Woods
>>69328397
But you're a literally who with golf.
Only Tiger Woods is well-known, and I suspect he owes a large part of his fame to being black.
>>69328346
Mayweather would get assblasted by every great heavyweight
>>69327821
That's a plus. He can go on vacation and not get mobbed by fans.
Much the same way Messi can come here and not really be noticed. In some Europoor country, there'd be a thousand people stampeding over themselves to get a look.
Golf
Football
Skiing (For being able to freestyle whenever you went skiing)
>>69326810
Baseball. I'd be the GOAT relief pitcher. Get 1 fat contract and then retire before my arm exploded. Spend the rest of my life living the good life.
>>69328030
>France
>talking about paying less taxes
Thanks. I needed the kek
tennis or golf
if you're genuinely the GOAT then fuck team sports
>>69328310
do you not see my point? 700 million is a drop in the bucket for a guy like that. you're not going to spend 7 billion dollars in one lifetime anyway, so he's just a greedy fuck.
i meet european women all the time here. most of them come from germany and sweden.
>>69328486
>implying that's a bad thing
>>69327196
The only correct answer.
>>69327052
>>69327055
Literally the only correct answer.
>make a shitload of money playing a pretty chill sport that you can play well into your old age.
It's perfect.
Formula 1.
>>69328616
Are you fucking stupid?
Of course we're aware about paying less taxes since we pay so much of them. And it's not like USA is a tax haven either.
>>69326810
golf is the only answer
>>69326810
football, play for DA FOXES for memes, profit
>be F1 driver
>crash into tractor cunt
>die
Nope, golf it is.
>>69328735
Yeah, but you have to play fucking golf. All year. Forever.
>>69328751
If you're the goat you wouldnt crash though
>>69326810
The answer is clearly golf. It's lots of money and you can play it until you're ancient.
Forget about Tiger Woods, who wouldn't want to be the next Jack Nicklaus?
Turned pro in 1961, retired in 2005
18 career majors
Was still on top of the world in 1986 when he won his 6th Masters at 46 yrs old. Fuuuuck
Lawn Bowls
>>69328625
>10% of your net worth
>a drop in the bucket
The drop is big enough to make him renounce his U.S. citizenship and never come back to America.
>you're not going to spend 7 billion
You can't "spend" shares of your company. He doesn't have 7 billion in cash.
>most of them come from germany and sweden
Yeah, countries who love to suck the big American dick :^)
Not to mean other Euro women dislike NYC, but we rarely go to America, or not at all.
It's too far away, it's needlessly expensive, U.S. customs are known to be horrible, and there are more interesting places to visit (IMO). Personally I'll never go to America, and especially not to New York.
>>69328774
Schumacher was the goat and a he crashed and turned into a vegetable. i am not a carrot man
>>69328774
>dutchposter
As expected. Tell that to Senna
Baseball/Golf is best for maximizing the money you make with little injury risk
Basketball is best for being the great white hope
Soccer is best for trolling the rest of the world by being American
I would choose soccer. The possibility of USA winning a modern WC before Englel is too juicy to pass up.
>>69328819
That was a skiing accident. Niki Lauda is a good example of shit going wrong tho.
>>69328819
He crashed while skiing
Imagine being the best at golf, and you hate golf (like anybody sane does). What a life of hell.
Like Agassi who hated tennis.
>>69326810
Golf.
1. They make mad money for what they do.
2. You can compete for 40+ years at golf and make money, as opposed to 15 years tops in most sports.
3. The golf schedules is completely voluntary. You can play whatever tournaments you want, and take weeks off to go snort coke and fuck hookers.
>>69328822
Most overrated driver
>>69328871
If you hate your job when your workplace is like this, then you're just plain fucked up.
Messi earns 80m euros a year, all these 'hurr golf money' fags must be on crack
>>69328794
>wanting to play that long
>not 7peating your first 7 years in the NBA and then retiring
>>69328868
>>69328870
crash is crash.
>>69328942
Well that's because he doesnt pay taxes :^)
>>69328828
>I would choose soccer. The possibility of USA winning a modern WC before Englel is too juicy to pass up.
The problem with soccer is that the schedule lasts fucking forever. If you're the best in the world, you're starting camp the first weeks of July, playing straight through to early May, then getting sucked into the NT to play tournaments through all of June.
In a big year like the WC, you're literally getting like 2 weeks off all year. Which is okay if you work an office job but super shit for an elite athlete.
>>69326810
c-chess
>>69328871
It's just a job in the end.
Think about all the people who hate 4chan and still post here every day. For free. That's what I call a life of hell.
>>69328942
Endorsements, nigga. Tiger made all his money off of Nike and Gillette and shit. He would have had a billie if she didn't take half.
>>69328942
Messi also has to work a lot more.
>90+ minutes running around on a weekly basis
>Champions League appearances
>International Appearances
>Strenuous year round exercise
>Have to retire when you become middle aged
compared to
>A couple hours of casually walking around and whacking a golf ball
>Only a few big tournaments to attend throughout the year
>Can be played until you're literally about to die of old age
>>69328972
But you retire in your early 30s (like most footballers) and live the luxury life afterwards.
Also, NT tournaments only happen every two years.
>people talking about having a career that lasts forever
>not wanting to retire early as possible
>not becoming a tycoon after you retire from playing a game for a living
I'll play basketball, 10peat as the GOAT White Hope, then move on to team ownership, shoe deals, etc.
>>69329041
this
You're out at 35 and a living legend, rather than forever trolling round some manicured autist grounds playing fucking autist stick.
>>69327243
Being the best football player doesn't insure winning trophies as well, just look at Messi.
Golf.
>easily have a 30+ year career
>Tiger was making $100M/year when he was dominating
Baseball starting pitcher
Clayton Kershaw is making $34 million this year to play a bit over 30 games
basketball since it seems like there's more perks to being a star in that sport than any other
>>69328817
he's just a greedy fuck. there's tons of billionaires who live in america and they don't seem to have a problem with it. besides those guys pay A LOT more taxes than a baseball player would have to. they don't make nearly that much money, but more than enough to live comfortably.
i've met french women, british women, italian women, norwegian women. i was just pointing out the most common types.
>>69329041
>and live the luxury life afterwards.
sure, if you've handled your finances well. most athletes dont and theyre lucky if they can live an above average life after retiring.
tennis
- big sport, can earn a decent amount of money and easy to get endorsements and quality sponsorships
- probably not a lot of injuries, certainly not as much as some other sports.
- it's an olympic sport, which is nice
- norway can finally into tennis
- it's a fun sport to play, and quite intimate with fans
- classy sport, for classy people such as myself
>golf
>make 100 million a year from prize money and endorsements
>individual sport so you get all the glory
>no passive niggers to deal with
>choose your own schedule
>can choose to play forever if you like the sport, or retire early if you want
>travel schedule take you around the world to slay pussy in every country
Pro golf must be a never ending vacation. Look at Royal Troon, host of the Open Championship next week. Now that is comfy.
>>69327052
>>69327055
Golf is the only sport where everyone I know who plays will never reach a level they're happy with
>>69328942
Jordan Spieth made 52m in 2016 to Messi's 81m. Messi also played from July to June. Spieth made all of his money from March to September. Which means Spieth makes more per week than Messi does.
>http://www.forbes.com/athletes/list/#tab:overall
Messi is the 26rth richest athlete of all time:
http://www.therichest.com/top-lists/top-100-richest-athletes/
There are FIVE golfers on that list higher than him.
#4 Arnold Palmer 675m
#6 Tiger Woods 640m
#18 Greg Norman 300m
#20 Phil Mickelson 295m
#22 Jack Nicklaus 280m
You know why?
Endorsements.
Endorsements make golfers WAY more money than soccer given the comparative popularity of the sports. Because golf is enjoyed by old white men with disposable income, so endorsements can pay out. Messi is beloved by Afghani children who make jerseys out of plastic bags.
>>69329117
Most athletes are dumb niggers, not autistic /sp/artans
>>69329209
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQsP-3ATeek
>>69329182
an early retirement sounds fun, where do i sign?
>>69329117
I don't get how these people can handle badly their money, can't they just go to a bank like UBS or HSBC and let these people manage the money?
The only thing they have to do is avoid spending like a monkey.
>>69329041
There's literally nothing stopping you from doing the same in other sports. You could choose to retire early from golf and be rich too.
>>69329090
>You're out at 35 and a living legend, rather than forever trolling round some manicured autist grounds playing fucking autist stick.
You know what most of these athletes do when they retire? They start playing fucking golf.
Guess what your richest athlete of all time is doing now that he's retired?
>>69329212
>Jordan Spieth
...literally who?
You made a fine point at the end of your post though.
>>69329290
Most athletes are driven into the sport when they're young. Messi was at La Masia when he was 13 years old. Do you think anyone there was actually teaching him life skills like how to deal with relatively complex finances?
>>69329290
they are dumb, a lot of them come from poor as shit backgrounds and barely enough education to know how to read and write in their native language. Messi literally allowed his dumb as shit factory worker father to handle his millions. then you have gold diggers, "friends" and family who also want their slice.
after they retire they are dropped into the world with the intelligence of a high-schooler and millions in their pockets with their main source of income gone over night.
you cant just save, you also have to invest. which is what most of them fail at.
>>69329355
They should've gotten him a Jewish tutor.
Messi is not dumb, he's a highly intelligent political philosopher
>>69329439
With GOAT level money, you don't really have to invest unless you plan to have a drug and car addiction. Mid level guys do.
American Football as QB
every Murrican want to suck my dick and earning Millions but quite incognito in the rest of the world
>>69329311
Golf is dying. Cycling is the new golf for richfags.
>>69329355
>>69329439
Yes, of course.
But my point is that you just have to go to a bank and let the people there invest the money for you.
One doesn't even have to be educated to know that...?
>>69329446
A financial "manager" who embezzles all of his money, you mean?
But in all seriousness, some leagues are starting to get wise to the problem. I think the NFL is starting to run financial management seminars for incoming players to help some of them a) find financial planners who aren't crooks and b) explain some life basics that weren't taught to them between growing up dirt poor in the bayou and being an elite athlete at a university where the school took care of everything for them.
>>69329489
depends on what you spend i guess. a reserved guy like Messi or Scholes will probably be just fine without investment. Some retarded nig like Mayweather has to though.
>>69329494
Football also has a high chance of being crippled for life, even for a QB. Having to wear a helmet during the game also limits endorsement appeal.
>>69329343
He's winning things now that Woods is shit
>>69329489
>you don't really have to invest if you're rich
What is this new form of retardation?
>>69329494
Andrew Luck, the current top paid nigga, is only making about $25 million a year. US football players won't make that much money in general due to huge roster sizes and a salary cap
I wouldn't mind being PDC World Darts champion.
Yeah its not very lucrative, and the "sport" is a joke, but in return you get the adoration of a crowd of drunks.
>>69329506
>golf is dying
>cycling
kekd. Spieth is rolling in money and not close to GOAT status.
>>69329553
A 100+ millionaire doesn't have to worry about investing. For them, not spending is its own form of investment. I mean, it helps, and can turn a millionaire into a billionaire, but they can literally never make another cent and live the good life for life.
American football.
Only 19 games a year.
>>69327053
Kicker's ceiling is low.
Quarterbacks don't really get hit enough i think.
But football salary is small in comparisson to other sports anyway.
>>69329610
I don't understand this mindset. It's like saying: "Retiring at age 23 is its own form of investment."
You're just losing money by refusing to invest, just like you're losing money by retiring too early.
>>69327102
you mean STDs ?
>>69327701
>relative to other sports, easy on the body
golf is easy on the body in relation to sleeping
>>69329686
Who cares? You have more money than you'll need.
>>69329569
I'm talking about 'executive bonding bullshit hobby' in response to that guy claiming all richfags play golf.
Maybe in failed states where everybody is too fat to cycle they do, but in europe, 8k bikes are the new golf.
>>69329719
Tell that to Tiger
>>69326810
Ski-Jumping
>>69329743
Biking is extremely popular here amongst middle aged white middle to upper class men, that guy is probably either a peasant or lives in a place where it is too cold to bike most of the year
>>69329743
who cares about poorope? In 10 years, you'll all be mohamad and the only retirement sport will be who can get the highest kill count in their suicide bomb.
>>69329556
Ronaldo or Messi just earn more b/c of their huge worldwide comercial Deals
would bei nice playing somewhere and worshipped as best of the Best but could go Home and relax and go buy some Prezeln unnoticed
>>69328885
Was still probably the best of his time and got the fame and money as if he was.
Crashes are accidents,accidents happen to everyone.
>>69329629
Coincidentally that's the same numbers of brain cells you'll have left once you finish your career
>>69329553
all you have to do is stick it in the bank and you'll make more than enough simply in interest
that's not really investing
>>69329743
Not true globally.
>>69329916
millionaires =/= rich
>>69330029
The few data we have on billionaires suggest golf is the most popular sport among them.
>inb4 billionaires =/= rich
>>69326810
>QB in the NFL
I love this sport and there is nothing I would rather do with my life.
>>69329886
You'll still lose money because of inflation.
If you have that much money, might as well put a large chunk of it in an index fund. That way you'll at least make money if you hold for decades.
>>69330029
And seriously, having two million dollars (in financial assets) makes you entry-level rich to me.
One million is a bit short indeed.
>>69329610
Yes you do.
Ever heard of Nicolas Cage ?
They will buy jeys,castles,buildings in front of the beach.
A top floor(how do tou say thay in english ?) apartment in the best parts of Rio can cost up to 8million.
>>69330316
Hulk Hogan lost hundreds of millions and was almost broke at some point (before winning his $115 million lawsuit recently).
Rap producer Scott Storch blew away his $70 million fortune in a few months by overspending: he bought a private jet, a huge yacht, twenty luxury cars, etc. Today he's got a net worth of $3,600.
>>69329886
Current interest rates are way below the inflation rate. Money in the bank currently loses value.
>>69330264
>One million is a bit short indeed.
I'll take them if you have to spare my dude
>>69326810
Darts
If you spend a shit load of money on property, won't they appreciate in value above the rate of inflation?
Provided one doesn't let them fall to shit ofc...
>>69329663
Kickers can play forever and with the rise in analytics in football it wouldn't surprise me if we saw a big rise in the salaries of top Kickers and punters. Being in range the second you cross the 50 is a pretty insane advantage to have
>>69327508
he means "soccer". We need a word filter that replaces "football" by "soccer" of the poster is from a soccer land
raping
>>69326810
need are kate on my willy
>>69326906>>69326906
Bessa pls go
>>69327954
Ask Tiger
>>69331879
I'm surprised there hasn't been already when you think about the percentage of a team's points that kicker scores.
>>69332559
With moneyball handling personnel decisions in Cleveland now I'd bet they'll be the first team to really embrace it
>>69326810
Football obviously
I am an idiot
Linebacker in the NFL.
I'm losing more brain cells a year because of alcohol anyway, at least there I'd be losing them because of passion not because of disgust and spite
Football.
>>69336020
Pic unrelated
>>69326831
The only answer desu
>>69329023
Yeah but football is actually a good sport
women tennis
Baseball easy, outfielder
>more money than most other sports and with guaranteed contracts.
>would not really be famous or recognized, not at all in most places abroad and not even much here in the US
>very little serious injury risk
>not physically exhausting
>team sport
>hang out with your bros in the dugout half the game
Golf is fine too but I'd much rather play a team sport
>>69338139
This
>stand around in the outfield
>hit 45 home runs
>get 500 million dollars
>no cte when I'm done
Sounds perfect
Football (TFW overtaking Messi as the GOAT)
Tennis
Boxing
F1
In that order
