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My Dad was a Wolves season ticket holder during the seventies and I got to go to quite a few games so naturally my first sporting heroes were Derek Doogan and John Richards and a little later, Andy Gray. I rode BMX in the early 80's so Haro and Fiola adorned my bedroom wall as an early teenager followed by The Bones Brigade when I started skating. Although I would never admit it to my Dad, I admired the Liverpool team of that era and was thrilled when Emlyn Hughes signed for Wolves.
Bjorn Dunkerbeck
Laird Hamilton
Daley Thompson
Keep your Mansells and Sennas...
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John Cleland always seemed like his natural place in life was being assistant manager of a branch of Clydesdale Bank or something, rather than trying to kill people with a Vauxhall Cavalier. Glory days
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Linda Lusardi
Jo Guest if feeling indifferent
Paul Elvestrom, 4x gold Olympian.
As a quirk, I did a short presentation on him in 1989 at a race training camp - with the only person to have surpassed him now, Ben Ainslie.
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And Dennis Conner - he re-wrote the rules (literally).
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Clarke.
Campbell.
Garlits.
Davie Cooper
Sugar Ray Leonard
Jock Taylor
Rob Herring
Jean-Michel Bayle
Daley Thompson and Brian Hooper.
Hooper did a motivational talk for the gym chain I worked with. He was great. I was 30 at the time, and the only guy who knew who he was....