Athletes
- Tony Roper (racing driver) (1964–2000), pickup race driver. His father Carrol Dean Roper was also a race driver.
- Brian Roper (sports), an Irish Gaelic footballer who plays for Donegal
- Don Roper (1922–2001), an English footballer
- John Roper, Major League Baseball pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds
- Steve Roper, an American rock climber
- Harriet Anne Roper, Born 2000 Karate Tekki RS (WALES) 2013 National Kumite Champion (KUGB)
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Famous quotes containing the word athletes:
“The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth ... the pollution of American space, with gadgetry and cars and TV and box architecture, brutalizes the senses, making gray neurotics of most of us, and perverse spiritual athletes and strident self-transcenders of the best of us.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)
“To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)