Sport
- David Allan (footballer) (1863–1930), Scottish international footballer
- David Allen (cricketer) (born 1935), Gloucestershire cricketer
- David Allan (cricketer) (born 1937), West Indian cricketer
- David Allen (American football) (born 1978), American football running back
- David Allen (rugby league) (born 1985), Irish rugby league player
- Dave Allen (football chairman), British sports businessman
- David Allen (canoer) (born 1943), British slalom canoer
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“Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain,
Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain,
Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid,
And parting summer’s lingering blooms delayed,
Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease,
Seats of my youth, when every sport could please,
How often have I loitered o’er the green,
Where humble happiness endeared each scene.”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)
“If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can’t go at dawn and not many places he can’t go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking—one sport you shouldn’t have to reserve a time and a court for.”
—Edward Hoagland (b. 1932)
“I wish glib and indiscriminate critics of industrialists had some conception of the problems that have to be met by factory management.... General condemnation of employers is a favorite indoor sport of the uninformed intelligentsia who assume the role of lance- bearers for labor.”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)