Sport
- Eric Bristow, darts champion.
- Bert Goodman, professional footballer born in Dalston.
- Ron 'Chopper' Harris, footballer for Chelsea F.C. raised in Hackney.
- Shaka Hislop,former goalkeeper for West Ham United and Trinidad and Tobago was born in Hackney.
- Anne Keothavong, tennis player, grew up in Hackney and learned to play on park courts in the borough. She still lives in Hackney.
- Kevin Lisbie, football player for Charlton Athletic was born in Hackney.
- Phillips Idowu, World Champion triple jumper, born and grew up in Hackney.
- Sanchez Watt, professional footballer playing for Arsenal
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Famous quotes containing the word sport:
“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–?)
“Rabelais, for instance, is intolerable; one chapter is better than a volume,—it may be sport to him, but it is death to us. A mere humorist, indeed, is a most unhappy man; and his readers are most unhappy also.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“What sport shall we devise here in this garden
To drive away the heavy thought of care?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)