Sports
- Thomas Smith (cornerback) (born 1970), American professional football player
- Thomas Smith (cricketer, born 1848), English cricketer
- Thomas Smith (cricketer, born 1854), English cricketer
- Thomas Smith (cricketer, born 1898) (1898–1926), Australian cricketer
- Thomas Smith (cricketer, born 1899) (1899–1965), English cricketer
- Thomas Smith (cricketer, born 1905) (1905–1993), English cricketer
- Thomas Smith (footballer), English footballer born in 1869
- Thomas H. Smith (1830–?), Irish Australian who played a role in the origin of Australian football
- R. Thomas Smith (1878–1957), American thoroughbred race horse trainer
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“I looked so much like a guy you couldn’t tell if I was a boy or a girl. I had no hair, I wore guys’ clothes, I walked like a guy ... [ellipsis in source] I didn’t do anything right except sports. I was a social dropout, but sports was a way I could be acceptable to other kids and to my family.”
—Karen Logan (b. 1949)
“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Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;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)
“Short of a wholesale reform of college athletics—a complete breakdown of the whole system that is now focused on money and power—the women’s programs are just as doomed as the men’s are to move further and further away from the academic mission of their colleges.... We have to decide if that’s the kind of success for women’s sports that we want.”
—Christine H. B. Grant, U.S. university athletic director. As quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A42 (May 12, 1993)