Sports
- Lawrence Chimezie Akandu (born 1974), a Nigerian-born Hong Kong football player
- Lawrence Peckham (born 1944), Australian high jumper
- Lawrence Sampleton (born 1959), former American football player
- Lawrence Taylor (born 1959), nicknamed LT, former Hall of Fame American football player who played for the New York Giants
- Edward Lawrence Levy (1851–1932), English world champion weightlifter
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“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)
“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)
“There be some sports are painful, and their labor
Delight in them sets off. Some kinds of baseness
Are nobly undergone, and most poor matters
Point to rich ends.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)