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"Does Kevin Durant deserve serious consideration as the greatest player of all time?"
"Everything I say about LeBron is in defense of the true GOAT, Jordan, against the phony GOAT, LeBron."
"Curry's way better, bro. Stop it, bro. There's no more debate."
"Peak Liverpool under Jürgen Klopp would beat the Invincibles, in my honest opinion."
"Those who favor putting males in female sports have not bothered to defend their claim at all or to engage with the points raised by the other side."
"You got to respect what this guy does that's why I don't get into that who's greater."
"LeBron came out the gates. Who's the best 16-year-old? People say LaMelo Ball, are you? What?"
"I still go back and forth between him and LBJ as the GOAT."
"I'm not trying to have a controversy discussion and debate, whatever. Comment down below out of these three who's your favorite player?"
"You cannot be three and six in the finals, have a stacked team at last eight nine years and tell me that you the best player ever."
"Messi and Ronaldo, should Messi be in the Team of the Year? No, he shouldn't. He's leaked, he's going to be, he's in there, it's stupid."
"Salvador Perez third best catcher in major league baseball, fight me."
"At what point do we put him in the greatest of all time debate?"
"Since Bruno signed, he's been the most impactful player that we've had."
"The GOAT debate is almost always constricted to LeBron and Michael, but there is a third person that by any measure should be included."
"If the GOAT debate is truly a three-person debate, that means there is someone who might be the greatest player ever who actually must come in as the third greatest player ever."
"Is Stephen Curry the greatest Point God who has ever ever ever lived? I think it's time to ask that question."
"Arguing or debating about football's enough for me."
"Luka Modric is better than Scholes, Gerrard, and Lampard."
"Do you believe what do you think is better, Bill Russell or me?"
"This is where the goat debate ended. I know people will say that it's been clear for a long last time but now it's unarguable."
"I have to go with '95 Hakeem over 2000 Shaq."
"Football through every club and throughout history is about opinion and debate."
"When it's all said and done there's going to be a really, really, really strong Phil Kessel hockey hall of fame argument."
"So when people say Ronaldo's finished and all this that and the other, he's a bench player at the moment, 100."
"Is he the best player of all time? You're not going to be counting championships he won as the support player of phase in an argument against whether he or coldzera is the best."
"Who's the greatest basketball player of all time? That's Michael Jordan."
"Any trans sports debate stuff is pseudoscientific garbage."
"KDB, player of the season. He won, what do you think about that over Salah?"
"Messi and Ronaldo, along with Maradona Pele, always going to be in the same debate but it's a good debate to have over a couple of drinks."
"Do they owe this to Aaron Rodgers? Would you give Patrick Mahomes another year in a similar situation?"
"I think if Messi or Ronaldo win the World Cup, would that solidify the winner being the goat of the sports?" - Dylan
"At his peak, I think you could make a compelling argument in favor of Gareth Bale being the best striker or forward partner that Cristiano Ronaldo has ever had."
"Big arguments still to come I think David on there on the landscape and the future of European football."
"The debate is pretty pointless, because City will surpass Arsenal in two seasons if they keep winning like this."
"If Luca Don Won this MVP award, would this be a travesty to you guys? No, not at all. It would be shocking, but it wouldn't be like oh we have to rethink the MVP award."
"Glover versus Yuri, because the title was on the line, it kind of sucks right, because I wanted to have a few arguments but it's hard to argue that this is not the fight of the year to this point."
"This game could end the debate of the greatest player of all time."
"Jordan gets four check marks to LeBron's one, making this GOAT debate, well, not much of a debate at all."
"Sorry Michael Jordan. But LeBron's the GOAT."
"LeBron wouldn't still make eight straight finals unless for some reason you put Jordan and Pippen in the Western Conference."
"The narrative the players today wouldn't survive in an earlier era is kind of ridiculous if I'm being honest."
"Wilt is one, Kareem is two, Bill Russell is three, Hakeem is four, Shaq is five. Honorable mention goes to Moses Malone."
"If we're talking about numbers, Salah has the edge, but if we're talking about who's the better out and out striker, it's Aubameyang."
"We're arguing over brilliant performances at the end of the day."
"Is Spence Crawford one of the most important boxing fights in the history of the sport? I say yes."
"Jordan was simply better at beating tougher teams."
"Jordan is the undisputed GOAT in my personal opinion."
"As much as I love Kobe, he wasn't as good as Jordan, and LeBron for damn sure ain't better than Jordan."
"When you're talking about goats, there are legitimate categories for all these guys."
"It's hard to say who's the best football player, just like who's the goat in the NBA."
"I've argued for Luca God knows many folks have argued for Yokus Vegas says it's Embiid maybe we're all overthinking this and we should give the MVP to the clear and obvious best player who's also the reigning finals MVP Giannis come get your award."
"Ronaldo is the greatest athlete of all time, I genuinely think so."
"I have a tough time believing somebody could be Michael one-on-one. I mean, everybody's all about LeBron, I love LeBron, respect him but Michael is a different animal."
"We had a fight about whether swimming or football was a more difficult sport."
"Manchester United, Leicester City, or Chelsea for the Champions League?"
"For me, LeBron James is still compiling his resume. So for me, it has not hurt LeBron's chances. For me, LeBron is the GOAT, and there's nothing he can do to hurt his chances."
"It's shameful, it's disrespectful, it's irreverent, it's blasphemous to even put the name of LeBron James in the same sentence with Michael Jordan."
"Who do I think's the best player in the world? I think that's a great question."
"You can never go wrong with reading to your child."
"Regardless of where you stand on the Messi-Ronaldo debate, prime Messi is the most entertaining footballer to watch."
"I see a lot of people discredit Ronaldo because they're Messi fans or discredit Messi because they're Ronaldo fans. Don't do that."
"I don't know how people can say that he's not a world-class level."
"You know, I think the [ __ ] of world cricket is the sporting argument."
"He's easily in this team for me. I don't think it's even really a debate."
"Westbrook MVP. I've been seeing some comments, y'all get mad at me and hate, but listen, y'all can get mad at me all y'all want, I just let his game do the talking."
"Guard 81 Kobe or 60 point triple double James Harden?"
"It's just one tournament, but if the LPL wins Worlds, I don't even know if it'll be an argument who the best region in the world is."
"To argue that Chris Paul is a bad postseason player is ridiculous."
"The most important question in the basketball world right now: Is Jokic the best player on the planet?"
"Is Jon Jones not worthy going up to heavyweight?"
"I've never seen anything like Kevin Durant. He's better than LeBron James, especially at this age and stage of LeBron's career."
"Chris Webber was right in the middle of the conversation with Kevin Garnett, Tim Duncan, and Dirk Nowitzki for the title of the best power forward."
"Is it fair to say him and Van Dijk could be the best center backs in the world?"
"There's no question now that Morton's top three in that conversation. And there's no doubt about it."
"Let's dismantle the stale argument that the sole MVP of Derrick Rose in 2011 wasn't deserved because LeBron should have got it."
"I really do not think you can name 10 center-backs in Europe they're better than Harry Maguire right now."
"I couldn't give a [] about your stats. I couldn't give a [] about your goals. I think Lewandowski deserves to win the Ballon d'Or."
"Messi or Ronaldo? It's such a massive debate."
"If Mourinho wins the league, it ends any debate about him."
"I think Kevin De Bruyne now makes his way into the conversation about greatest ever Premier League midfielders."
"The longer a conversation on a football forum goes, the more certain the issue of who is better Messi or Ronaldo will occur."
"I think it's funny too when people defending Michael Jordan playing against plumbers would use, 'Okay, well this is LeBron's competition,' and it'd be like a picture of myself."
"Is Ronaldo finished? Let's have a debate. Is Ronaldo walking around with a bloody hobbling stick?"
"Vidic over Varane every day of the week... Vidic is just underrated as one of the world's best ever center-backs."
"They're doing such a good job, the debate is going to start maybe they should keep Jared Goff, and that's going to send you off."
"Look, we can all sit here and debate which vault is better, but at the end of the day, everyone knows that the Geary vault is easily the best vault in the entire franchise."
"I give you all that Jerry, but I'm not going to give you sending Michael Jordan into retirement two years prematurely." - Skip Bayless
"If we sign rafael varan... it's a bigger signing than jaden sancho low-key controversial whatever."
"There's no debate, Tom Brady is the GOAT. Any attempt at arguing against it is just exposing a bias."
"There is no true GOAT, but Cena's case is very, very strong."
"People are still somehow debating whether or not Embiid deserves MVP over him or Chris Paul when, while they've had great play, it just fails in comparison to the Joker."
"Does Dominic Cruz, if he wasn't riddled with injuries, would he be in the GOAT discussion?"
"Peak Liverpool under Klopp would beat the Invincibles."
"Regardless of what else they put together, I just can't really see the argument for anything else."
"The most hotly debated position in all of sports is the quarterback position."
"If you want to give Kobe the title of being the greatest player ever, then you should be able to qualify it."
"Kobe has a solid argument for a spot in the top five."
"Michael Jordan made Scottie, and I've always told you, there is no way to me that Scottie Pippen would have been a top 50 player if not for Jordan."
"Football is about debate. Don't ever let football become not about debate."
"LeBron doesn't even belong in the same conversation or basketball universe."
"Can we agree now my home is the best quarterback in football?"
"LeBron is the GOAT, it's Michael that did it all, it is Michael Jordan."
"Is it the driver or is it the car? For me, seven times world champion is all driver."
"Nikola Jokic has an argument for the best player in the world right now."
"I think there is a debate to be had between who is the better club between Liverpool and Manchester City."
"I guess the main decisions that you've got to make is do you want enemies or do you want allies."
"Ring of Honor purists and longtime fans have debated the idea of Xavier as Ring of Honor champion, and time has shown him to be among the least memorable champions in company history."
"Given that, he has a great argument as the greatest player of all time."
"Sala's the best right winger. You can argue about Marne and Son if you want to, but there's no better right winger than Sala."
"If there is one characteristic that Fury vs Joshua can share with that fight is that it attempts to settle one of the hottest debates that takes place in the sport."
"If they would have fought in different eras, people would say, 'Who would win, Kovalev or Andre Ward? Wow, that's a tough one. You know, I don't know.'"
"Prime John Wall is better than Prime D Rose."
"Calvin Johnson best receiver ever... it's pretty hard to say that Jerry Rice is not the best wide receiver of all time."
"LeBron is the more versatile defender but there's no way in hell you can make a case that he was the better defender."
"I think the players that I've talked to most, most of the players I've talked to who did face Kobe and LeBron, they pick Kobe. And they do it because they say just his Attack Mode, his Mamba Mentality, Killer Instinct."
"If a player wins a championship, it hurts his legacy. What are we doing here, Skip? You're one of the MJ people who holds rings to the highest standard."
"People will say MJ can't play today's era, LeBron can't play in the '80s and '90s, yet turn around and say they're top five all-time players. Interesting."
"Leicester should be officially put into the big six."
"Is Jungmin Son the best player ever? South Korea, excuse me, and whole Asia tell it, and maybe even from South America."
"How can they be overrated? It's the biggest fight in boxing for a reason."
"I said he's the best left back in the world this season. People came after me, but he's been our best player."
"You have to consider Steph Curry as the greatest force in basketball history, deal with it."
"It's gotta be Tuchel or Klopp... It's got to be Tuchel or Klopp, it's an easy call."
"His claim for the greatest of all time is up for debate."
"I've never in my life heard a better argument that Michael Jordan is the greatest player of all time than that one right there."
"If we're talking about holistically, LeBron is clearly the GOAT over Michael Jordan. And we talk about just on the court and you wanna compare stats, I mean, his stats are still smashing MJ's stats."
"Who's having a better season, Jason Tatum or Paul George? Jason Tatum."
"If we win tonight, you can have a go at me. If we win tonight and I say, 'This is why Ten Hag needs to stay,' absolutely banter the [ __ ] out of me."
"...the most hotly contested question in the sport: who's the greatest to ever do it?"
"Is there a better athlete in a country than Charlie Ward?"
"They thought Malkin as a pure offensive player might have the edge on Ovechkin."
"And I felt like I had to make the case for Hazard, the debate here in terms of, in terms of what Gareth Bale contributed to football compared to what Eden Hazard contributed to football, Gareth Bale is superior."
"If you don't think that LeBron is better than Michael J, I don't even know what to tell you."
"I don't argue about Kobe and LeBron no more. If you think Kobe's better, then cool."
"The Chicago Bulls '96 Bulls have no shot against the 2017 Warriors."
"That's a horrible argument because Stephen Curry and the shooters of today literally changed the game."
"Jimmy Butler over Klay Thompson overall or all time? As a player, Jimmy, yeah for sure."
"If he wins his third MVP... we're gonna have to start having real conversations about where we rank him amongst all-time greats."
"LeBron will be my goat if you get Westbrook a Championship."
"Messi or Ronaldo? I'd go with Messi."
"Tom Brady is Tom Brady, but I believe Jordan was better at what he did than what Tom did at what he did."
"The NBA GOAT debate is one of the most popular sports debates in sports debate history."
"Magic at four, Kareem at three, LeBron at two, and obviously MJ at one."
"Not even the most diehard CR7 devotee can fairly deny Messi the title of football's GOAT."
"LeBron's prime was longer than Mike's whole career, bro."
"LeBron versus Jordan, it's a debate that has captured the public's attention for the last several years."
"Y'all better stop playing with LeBron James."
"Respect to LeBron James, he's in the GOAT conversation."
"The level of hate LeBron gets is so unnecessary."
"I've always said that I felt as if the LeBron James and Michael Jordan debates, comparisons, were always engineered."
"If you put Prime MJ in today's NBA, how many points is he getting?"
"Who would you rather have, Aaron Rodgers or Tom Brady next year?"
"Do you at least acknowledge how ridiculous that is to say that Utah Jazz team is better than the Warriors because they won 60 games?"
"I'm not gonna argue that Larry's better because he won more, I'm gonna argue that he won more because he's better."
"Greatest player of all time, it's not a discussion, it's done."
"Is James Harden the top five shooting guard of all time?"
"Are Masters race teams just another example of elitism in cycling, or is it harmless fun?"
"I am without a doubt taking Dwyane Wade over James Harden."
"No way in hell is James Harden a better peak player than Dwyane Wade."
"If you love clutch players, why don't you like LeBron James?"
"I don't think there's a perfect answer, but I definitely think the conversation around whether football makes sense long term is worth it."
"Malcolm Brogdon for sixth man, that's a legit argument."
"Prime Anthony Davis or Dwight Howard? Hey, Dwight Howard, no doubt."
"Everything LeBron James did, MJ does better. Period."
"The conversation about him being the best since Larson gets stronger and stronger every day."
"I'm going with Kobe, bro, specifically because I'm trying to make a GOAT case."
"Is it time to start putting him as the best player of all time?"
"Michael Jordan is the goat, but LeBron is the best basketball player of all time."
"Baker Mayfield, Jaylen Hurts, a debate of the century."
"We're going to keep Luka Doncic off every single all-NBA team? How right does that sound?"
"Who do you think is better out of Kobe and Shaq? That's the question."
"You're right, it puts him in that conversation of perhaps the top three best ever to do this."
"It doesn't matter who the GOAT is, my guy should be in the conversation."
"If there's a debate about your career, you're not a Hall of Famer. It should be the best of the best."
"It's supposed to be fun, right? Like when we argue about who the best quarterback in football is or whatever, it shouldn't be toxic, it should be fun."
"LeBron wins the championship this year and plays lights out, then that moves the needle more to me."
"I just think this is great for Millennials because we always talk about the debate Jordan LeBron."
"Some people say Kobe was more skilled than Michael Jordan."
"I think Jordan right now is definitely the GOAT. I think LeBron has a chance there. I'm rooting for him to get there."
"I mean we talk about LeBron James here, like, this is the guy that we argue about, is he better than Michael Jordan or not."
"The fact of the matter is, people are obsessed about having the LeBron Jordan conversation."
"Michael Jordan wasn't all that. Fix your face."
"The NBA Most Valuable Player discussion will always provide heated debates year after year."
"Every shred of evidence points to Jordan."
"LeBron vs. Michael Jordan debate... it's really groundless."
"The Trey Lance debate is fascinating to me because that might be the most polarizing rookie quarterback discussion around the entire league."
"The debate is not whether or not they're both great players, the debate is who was a better shooter."
"If you could have one player to build your championship team around this season, I said KD over LeBron."
"Regardless of who you think is the best one-on-one player in the community, you have to throw Scoo in that conversation."
"Who's more important to their team? That's a great question."
"You got to win championships for us to put you in the GOAT conversation."
"For me, it wasn't a debate up until Messi was about three Ballon d'Ors clear."