Sports
- George Young (baseball) (1890–1950), American professional baseball player
- George Young (swimmer) (1910–1972), Canadian marathon swimmer
- George Young (Scottish footballer) (1922–1997), Scottish defender
- George Young (Welsh footballer), Welsh footballer
- George Young (American football executive) (1930–2001), American football executive
- George Young (athlete) (born 1937), American track and field athlete, Olympic medalist
- George Young (Australian rules footballer) (born 1949), Australian rules player and cricketer in the 1970s
- George Young (American football) (born 1924), American football player
- George Avery Young (1866–1900), British cricketer and Wales international rugby player
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“The whole idea of image is so confused. On the one hand, Madison Avenue is worried about the image of the players in a tennis tour. On the other hand, sports events are often sponsored by the makers of junk food, beer, and cigarettes. What’s the message when an athlete who works at keeping her body fit is sponsored by a sugar-filled snack that does more harm than good?”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)
“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Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;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)
“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)