Pets provide more than just company; they often become unofficial team members. Athletes have long been known to be fiercely competitive, always looking for an edge. With a little motivation from their furry (or not furry) sidekicks, we watch these champions accomplish amazing feats.

Athletes

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Luis Suárez Pets

Luis Suárez is a Uruguayan professional footballer who plays as a striker for Spanish club Atlético Madrid and the Uruguay national team. He is regarded as one of the best players of his generation and one third of the three man strike team including Lionel Messi and Neymar. Suárez has won nineteen major trophies in his career, including seven league titles and a UEFA Champions League at club level, as well as the 2011 Copa América with Uruguay.

Neymar Pets

Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior, known as Neymar, is a Brazilian professional footballer (soccer) who plays as a forward for Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain and the Brazil national team. Neymar gained game in his professional debut aged 17 where he helped his club win two successive Campeonato Paulista championships, a Copa do Brasil, and the 2011 Copa Libertadores; the latter being Santos’ first since 1963. Neymar was twice named the South American Footballer of the Year, in 2011 and 2012, and soon relocated to Europe to join Barcelona.

Simone Biles Pets

Simone Biles is an American artistic gymnast with a combined total of 32 Olympic and World Championship medals. Biles is tied as the most decorated gymnast of all time she also ties Shannon Miller for the most Olympic medals won by an American female gymnast.

Aaron Rodgers Pets

Aaron Rodgers is an American football quarterback for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL). Rodgers played college football for the California Golden Bears and was later selected in the first round of the 2005 NFL Draft by the Packers. Aaron Rodgers is third on the NFL’s all-time regular season career passer rating list while also having had the highest passer rating, the best touchdown to interception ratio and the lowest passing interception percentage in NFL history throughout the entire 2010s decade.

Blake Griffin Pets

Blake Griffin is an American basketball player for the Detroit Pistons in the NBA. When playing college basketball for the Oklahoma Sooners, he was one of the highest rated and most decorated recruits; he was named the Consensus National Player of the Year as a sophomore. Griffin was selected first overall by the Los Angeles Clippers in the 2009 NBA draft.

John Cena Pets

John Cena is an American professional wrestler and actor. He is best known for his career in the WWE, which he is currently on hiatus from. He started his pro-wrestling career in 1999 with the Ultimate Pro Wrestling (UPW), where he won the championship the next year.

Logan Ryan Pets

Logan Daniel Ryan is an American professional NFL football player. He’s currently the cornerback for the Tennessee Titans. He played college football at Rutgers University and was drafted in the third round of the 2013 NFL Draft by the New England Patriots.

Caitlyn Jenner Pets

Caitlyn Marie Jenner, formally known as Bruce Jenner, is an American TV personality and former Olympic athlete. Born as William Bruce Jenner, she showed promise as an athlete as a teenager.  After winning a college football scholarship, she eventually stopped playing due to a knee injury. Her college’s track coach saw her potential and got competing in the decathlon.

Conor McGregor Pets

Conor Anthony McGregor is also known as Notorious in the MMA industry. He’s known for being an Irish professional mixed martial artist signed to the Ultimate Fighting Championship. He is famous for being the reigning UFC Lightweight Champion and the former UFC Featherweight Champion, as well as for his public persona.

Tiger Woods Pets

Eldrick Tont “Tiger” Woods is an American professional golfer. He is one of the highest-paid athletes in the world and is considered one of the best golfers of all time, earning him an estimated net worth of $740 million. Introduced to golf by his father at age 2, he immediately showed amazing talent.