Tue Feb 09, 2021 3:08 pm
The Winningest Athletes of All Time Sports
Bill Russell: 2 college championships with the University of San Fran (which included a 55-game win streak at one point), an Olympic gold medal, and 11 NBA championships in 13 years. Just insane.
Michael Phelps: 28 Olympic medals including 23 golds make Phelps the most decorated Olympian of all time.
Rocky Marciano: Only heavyweight to retire undefeated at 49-0. Not bad for a white guy from Brockton, MA.
Jack Nicklaus: 18 majors including 4 US Open wins, and 6 green jackets. with 73 PGA Tour wins overall.
Tiger Woods: 15 majors, and tied for the most PGA tour wins of all time with 110.
Yogi Berra: 10 World Series rings as a player and another 3 as a coach.
Henri Richard: Nicknamed “The Pocket-Rocket,” Richard won 11 Stanley Cups with the Montreal Canadiens in his 20-year NHL career.
Joe DiMaggio: 9-time World Series champion and 1 Marylin Monroe.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: 6-time NBA champion, 3-time college champ with UCLA (over which they went 88-2), and captain of a Power Memorial High School basketball team that won 71 straight games and 3 New York City Catholic championships.
Roger Federer: 20 Grand Slams and 103 career titles.
Pele: Only soccer player to be a part of 3 World Cup-winning teams. Pele also led his original club team, Santos, to 10 championships in the Campeonato Paulinista league. And let us not forget his 1977 North American Soccer League championship with the New York Cosmos.
Michael Jordan: 6 championships in 8 years, 2 gold medals, and 1 NCAA championship with the Tarheels.
Tom Brady: 6 Super Bowls, 3 league MVPs, 16 division titles and a quarterback high 245 regular + postseason victories.
Serena Williams: Winner of 23 major singles titles, most of any man or woman in the Open Era.
Pete Sampras: 64 career titles including 14 Slams.
Alexander Karelin: Though most remembered here in America for his stunning defeat at the hands of Rulon Gardner, “Alexander The Great” went undefeated in international Greco-Roman wrestling competition for thirteen years, the last six of which he didn’t even give up a single point.
Otto Graham: Took the Cleveland Browns to the championship game in every one of the ten years he played, winning seven and going 105-17-4 over that span. He also won a championship playing professional hoops with the Rochester Royals.
Martina Navratilova: 167 singles and 177 doubles career titles (both records for men or women) Her singles career includes 9 Wimbledons and 4 US Opens.
Lance Armstrong: He might be doper, but he’s the winningest doper there ever was.
Mickey Mantle: 7 World Series rings in 12 years and a 1956 Triple Crown.
Larissa Latynina: The Soviet gymnast has held the all-time Olympic medal record for nearly a half century with 18, including nine golds.
Carl Lewis: 9 Olympic golds and 8 world championship golds. Side note: Lewis was drafted by both the NBA and NFL, though never played a game for either.
Kelly Slater: The most decorated surfer of all time has won a record 11 ASP World Championships, his titles spanning an incredible eighteen years from age 20 to 38.
Edwin Moses: Won an astounding 122 consecutive races (107 finals), 2 Olympic golds, and 2 World Championship golds.
Robert Horry: 7-time NBA champion with 3 different teams.
John Havlicek: 8-time NBA champion and a NCAA title.
Cael Sanderson: Wrested to an incredible record of 159-0 with 4 consecutive NCAA titles for Iowa St before capturing gold in Athens 2004.
Bill Dickey: 8-time World Series Champ.
Magic Johnson: 5-time NBA champion, 1 gold medal, and enough money to makes AIDS his bitch.
Bart Starr: 5-time NFL champion (including the first 2 Super Bowls)
Joe Montana: 4-time Super Bowl champion and an NCAA national title at Notre Dame.
Lou Gehrig: 6-time World Series champion and the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.
Kobe Bryant: 5-NBA championships (one more than Shaq) and 2 gold medals.
Shaquille O’Neal: 4-time NBA champion, 6 crappy albums and 11 crappy movies (see: Kazaam) And he beat up Golden Boy Oscar De La Hoya.
Babe Ruth: 7 World Series trophies with both the Sox and Yankees.