Sports
- Benji Olson (born 1975), former National Football League (NFL) player
- Bob Olson, American collegiate football player
- Carl Bobo Olson, (1928–2002), American boxer
- Drew Olson (born 1983), NFL quarterback
- Greg Olson (baseball) (born 1960), Major League Baseball (MLB) catcher
- Gregg Olson (born 1966), MLB pitcher
- Karl Olson (born 1930), MLB outfielder
- Lisa Olson, American sportswriter
- Lute Olson (born 1934), former basketball coach
- Mark Olson (broadcaster), Canadian sports anchor in the 1970s
- Mark Olson (curler), Canadian curler and 1981 Brier champion
- Sasha Olson (born 1976), Canadian softball player
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behaviour, attire, grace, learning and all their words aimeth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“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Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;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)
“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)