The 21 Best Sports Movies of All Time

We all love a good training montage. But some get us more pumped up than others. If you have trouble reading this message, view it in a browser.       The Best Sports Movies of All Time   There are few things that'll get you from zero to ready-to-bust-down-a-wall in 30 seconds. A Kool-aid commercial for example. A better example is the sports-movie training montage. Rocky, Remember the Titans, The Karate Kid—all home to hill sprints/ab crunching/bench-pressin' that will, through the power of a good '80s synth bop or Meek Mill verse, send you straight into... well, not quite an exact replica. What you end up doing is probably more akin to busting out a couple pushups in the corner of your living room. You know what else is awesome? Sports movies, in general. So we took it upon ourselves to list our favorite—and what we deem the most triumphant—sports movies of all time. 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