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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Urban Meyer Pets
Urban Frank Meyer III is an American football coach who is the head coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League (NFL). He previously served as the head coach of the Bowling Green Falcons from 2001 to 2002, the Utah Utes from 2003 to 2004, the Florida Gators from 2005 to 2010, and the Ohio State Buckeyes from 2012 to 2018. He retired from coaching in 2019 at the end of the Rose Bowl, and stayed at Ohio State as an assistant athletic director and was also an analyst for Fox Sports, appearing weekly on their Big Noon Kickoff pre-game show.
Vitor Belfort Pets
Vítor Belfort is a Brazilian mixed martial artist and boxer, who competes in the Heavyweight and Middleweight divisions. Belfort previously competed for the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where he fought in the Heavyweight, Light Heavyweight and Middleweight divisions. He is the UFC 12 Heavyweight Tournament Champion, as well as the former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion and Cage Rage World Light Heavyweight Champion.
Manny Pacquiao Pets
Emmanuel “Manny” Dapidran Pacquiao Sr. is a Filipino politician and former professional boxer. Nicknamed “PacMan”, he is regarded as one of the greatest professional boxers of all time.
Anthony Joshua Pets
Anthony Joshua is a British professional boxer. He is a two-time former unified world heavyweight champion, having held the WBA (Super), IBF, WBO, and IBO titles from December 2019 to September 2021, and previously between 2016 and June 2019. At regional level, he held the British and Commonwealth heavyweight titles from 2015 to 2016.
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.