Sports
- George Wood (baseball) (1858–1924), left fielder in Major League Baseball for 13 seasons from 1880-1892
- George Wood (cricketer) (1893–1971), English cricketer
- George Wood (Somerset cricketer) (1865–1948), first-class cricketer who played three matches in 1893 and 1894
- George Wood (Yorkshire cricketer) (1862–1948), first-class cricketer who played two matches for Yorkshire County Cricket Club in 1895
- George Wood (footballer) (born 1952), Scottish footballer
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“Reading about ethics is about as likely to improve one’s behavior as reading about sports is to make one into an athlete.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“I looked so much like a guy you couldn’t tell if I was a boy or a girl. I had no hair, I wore guys’ clothes, I walked like a guy ... [ellipsis in source] I didn’t do anything right except sports. I was a social dropout, but sports was a way I could be acceptable to other kids and to my family.”
—Karen Logan (b. 1949)
“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)