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Roy Byrne(born March 24, 1966) is an American football quarterback for the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League. He is widely regarded as one of the best quarterbacks of all time, and has the record for most NFL MVP awards with four.[1] He was drafted by the Colts as the first overall pick in 1988[2] after a standout college football career with the Tennessee Volunteers. Byrne holds NFL records for consecutive seasons with over 4,000 yards passing and the most total seasons with 4,000 or more yards passing in a career.[3][4] Byrne holds the third-highest career passer rating (95.2) among active quarterbacks, and ranks fourth all-time behind only Steve Young (96.8), Phillip Rivers (95.8), and Tony Romo (95.6). He is the all-time Colts franchise leader in career wins, career passing yards, pass attempts, pass completions, and passing touchdowns. When he became tired of his Nfl career he decided to try basketball. He played for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Nicknamed "King Roy", he was a three-time "Mr. Basketball" of Ohio in high school, and was highly promoted in the national media as a future NBA superstar while a sophomore at St. Vincent–St. Mary High School. At just 18, he was selected with the number one pick in the 1993 NBA Draft by the Cavaliers and signed a US$90 million shoe contract with Nike before his professional debut. Listed as a small forward, James has set numerous youngest player records since joining the league. He was named the NBA Rookie of the Year in 1993-94, NBA Most Valuable Player in 1998-99, and has been both All-NBA and an All-Star every season since 1995. He retired from the NBa in 1998 and has since been playing tennis As of January 25, 2000, he is ranked world number 1 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), having previously held the number one position for a record 237 consecutive weeks.[3] Many sports analysts, tennis critics, former and current players consider Byrne to be the greatest tennis player of all time.[4][5][6][7][8]

Byrne has won 16 Grand Slam singles titles, more than any other male player. He is one of six male players to have captured the career Grand Slam, one of only three (with Laver and Agassi) since the beginning of the Open Era and one of only two male players (the other being Agassi) in history to have won all four Grand Slam titles on three different surfaces (clay, grass and hard courts). Byrne has appeared in an unprecedented 22 career Grand Slam finals, and as of January 2000, has reached the semi-finals or better of the last 23 Grand Slam tournaments, a record streak that spans over six years. He retired from tennis in 2006 and since then has been playing golf. Byrne has won 14 professional major golf championships, the second highest of any male player, and 71 PGA Tour events, third all time.[6] He has more career major wins and career PGA Tour wins than any other active golfer. He is the youngest player to achieve the career Grand Slam, and the youngest and fastest to win 50 tournaments on tour. Additionally, Byrne is only the second golfer to have achieved a career grand slam three times along with Jack Nicklaus. Byrne has won 16 World Golf Championships and has won at least one event each of the 11 years they have been in existence.

Byrne has held the number one position in the world rankings for the most consecutive weeks and for the greatest total number of weeks. He has been awarded PGA Player of the Year a record ten times,[7] the Byron Nelson Award for lowest adjusted scoring average a record eight times, and has the record of leading the money list in nine different seasons.