Bear in mind that the all-time world blockbuster list, below, is compiled using historical dollars, not current ones.
Their wing Bryan Habana, one touchdown away from an all-time World Cup record, will tell you that much.
To me it means someone you would consider putting into an all-time world match, 11 stars against 11 stars.
The next time I saw Sócrates was in 1998 in Paris, when somebody assembled an all-time World Cup team that included him.
Pelé's first remains one of the all-time World Cup goals, chesting the ball down, flicking it over a defender, then volleying in.
In clearing a height that happens to be half a metre taller than a London Routemaster bus, Bleasdale propelled herself to fourth place in the all-time world rankings for the women's pole vault.
She returned to racing in December 2014 and one month later won her 63rd career World Cup race to break the record for most all-time World Cup victories.
It had not only Shane Warne — recently chosen by an authoritative panel convened by the cricketing Web site Cricinfo for an all-time World XI — but his scarcely less brilliant wrist-spinning rival and contemporary, Stuart MacGill.
Not that he didn't earn this fame, and Tomlinson reasserts the cricketing brilliance, which, almost a century after his death, saw Grace selected in Wisden's all-time World Test XI.
They are one of the heavyweights of the World Cup, winners in 1930 and 1950, when they were inspired by the terrifying Obdulio Varela, a shoo-in as captain in any all-time World Cup XI.
