Colin Cowherd

There's just so many different things now that keep that elite level longer.

And that's why people who love to harp on, well, the players were better in the 70s and 80s, and Babe Ruth was so much better.

Like, they just don't get it.

Go back and look at... Jordan was doing steak and potatoes and bottles of wine on off days and playing cards and smoking cigars.

It was a different world than it is today.

And you go look at now, players now, they don't go out...

I mean, I was looking at Rinaldo's diet.

There's no carbs.

It is like vegetables, green, fish, protein, all day, no carbs.

I mean, it's just a different world.

So, you know, if you take the old guys and put them in today's world, it would be different.

But Michael Jordan, I mean, it was cigars and cards and steak and potatoes and...

Fighters now, UFC fighters, international players, don't eat red meat before big events.

The world's changed.

The other thing about Messi watching him, Colin, is unbelievably, he conserves energy like nobody else.

He's almost like scientific.

Like, hey, I'm going to just walk around for a little while.

And you're like, well, what's Messi doing?

He's resting and waiting for his moment to strike like a cobra and just be like, boom.

Oh, my gosh.