Why do Filipinos excel more in individual sports than team sports? Can't we produce an Asian Games basketball champion team? How about a formidable football squad that can rival with some of the Europian foots band? And what the hell happened to our RP Blue Boys who are once feared in the Asian baseball circuit?

Is our inclination on being successful in individual sports (and disinclination in winning in team sports) any way indicative that Pinoys prefer to achieve "individual greatness" rather than "collective triump or group victory"? Is Filipino team work not good enough?

Just a thought... Anyway here's a short list of successful (both past and present) Pinoy champion sportsmen:

1. Manny Pacquiao - Boxing
2. Mansueto "Onyok" Velasco - Boxing
3. Gabriel "Flash" Elorde - Boxing
4. Efren "Bata" Reyes - Billiards
5. Francisco Bustamante - Billiards
6. Ronato Alcano - Billiards
7. Mikee Cojuangco Jaworski - Equestrian
8. Tony Leviste - Equestrian
9. Paeng Nepomuceno - Bowling (Hall of Fame)
10. Eric Buhain - Swimming
11. Teofilo "Ilocano Shark" Yldefonso - Swimming
12. Lydia De Vega - Athletics
13. Elma Muros - Athletics
14. Simeon Toribio - Athletics (Filipino Field Athlete of the Half Century)
15. Eugenio Torre - Chess
16. Jethro Dionisio - Shooting
17. Dorothy Delasin - Golf
18. Jennifer Rosales - Golf
19. Donal David Geisler -Taekwando
20. Salvador Del Rosario - Weightlifting