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Lifer
This is definitely another angle to think about. A lot of very talented athletes would probably also be amazingly good at other sports, but because of their career decisions and interests, it can never be known what the result might be.
Michael Jordan is an interesting example. He was arguably the greatest basketball player ever in his prime (definitely top 5 by any rational look at things), but when he went to play baseball, he was only average as a pro (granted, there are only a few thousand players of that caliber playing in the nation at any given time). It might be that if he had never focused on basketball, but had focused very hard on baseball, that he might have been an outstanding player, and in his prime might have been a true champion in that sport. Or maybe he wouldn't.
This same 'what-if' scenario can play out ceaselessly. I have an uncle who is a very quiet man, an old country boy from North Carolina, who is (or was, haven't seen him in about 10 years) insanely strong. He is very withdrawn, and his very rare smiles look eerily like the Terminator's attempt in T2, but he could move two full-size picnic tables (~200lbs each?) with all the ease of a kid holding a couple of twigs. He got an award from the city after Hurricane Hugo for working nonstop for almost a week straight clearing debris and helping restore services. At around 6'8" and what I would estimate to be nearly 300lbs of sinewy muscle, you have to wonder what he might have been like if he had focused on fighting, or football, or baseball. But no, he's happy (if you can call his seemingly emotionless existence that) just working for the city, and hunting and fishing every spare moment.
One thing for sure. I've had a voracious appetite for studying and practicing fighting styles over the years, and after all of it, have never seen anything like what Lee could do. Again, not the films particularly, but the videos of his demonstrations, combined with testimony of his gifts.
