Sports
- Charles Plumpton Wilson (1859–1938), former England footballer
- Charles Wilson (cricketer) (1869–1952), Australian cricketer who played mainly in New Zealand
- Charles Wilson (American football) (born 1968), former NFL wide receiver
- Charlie Wilson (baseball) (1905–1970), former St. Louis Cardinals baseball player
- Charles Wilson (fencer) (1865–1950), British Olympic fencer
- Charlie Wilson (footballer born 1877) (1877–?), played for Liverpool and Stockport County
- Charlie Wilson (footballer born 1895) (1895–1971), played for Tottenham Hotspur, Huddersfield Town and Stoke City
- Charlie Wilson (footballer born 1905) (1905–1985), played for West Bromwich Albion, Sheffield Wednesday and several other clubs
- Chuck Wilson (athlete) (born 1968), American former sprinter
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn,
Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;
Amidst thy bowers the tyrant’s hand is seen,
And desolation saddens all thy green;
One only master grasps the whole domain,
And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain;”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)
“Guys do not have a genetic blueprint that allows them to understand or love sports.”
—Lesley Visser, U.S. sports reporter and announcer. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 82 (June 17, 1991)
“Short of a wholesale reform of college athletics—a complete breakdown of the whole system that is now focused on money and power—the women’s programs are just as doomed as the men’s are to move further and further away from the academic mission of their colleges.... We have to decide if that’s the kind of success for women’s sports that we want.”
—Christine H. B. Grant, U.S. university athletic director. As quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A42 (May 12, 1993)