Optimus Prime Ice Sculpture By Antti Pedrozo And Michel De Kok

The animated series revealed other minor details about Optimus Prime's personality and personal life — for example, his dislike of rap music ("Blaster Blues" and "Quest for Survival"), which set him at odds with music-loving characters like Blaster and Jazz. Prime also enjoys televised sports, most notably basketball which he even plays ("The Master Builder"), as well as setting up a basketball court outside the Ark. Though Prime's personality is like that of a human man age 40-50, he is not above watching afternoon soap operas (in the episode "Prime Target", he is heard groaning out loud when the soap opera he is watching with the other Autobots gets interrupted for a news report).
Marvel Comics
In Marvel Comics' comic series, before the Great War broke out on Cybertron, the robot who would be Optimus Prime (before he received the Matrix of Leadership from Sentinel Prime) was a Transformer of note, displaying his skills in the Infraformers Sharpshooting Competition. Subsequently, when the war began, Prime quickly made a name for himself as a combat leader of the Autobots.