Sports
- Robert Burton (athlete) (1885–1950), British track and field athlete
- Bob Burton (basketball), American basketball coach
- Claude Burton (cricketer) (1891–1971), full name Robert Claude Burton
- Robert Burton (cricketer, born 1943), Trinidadian-born former English cricketer
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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)
“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)
“Come, my Celia, let us prove
While we may the sports of love;
Time will not be ours forever,
He at length our good will sever.”
—Ben Jonson (1572–1637)