Sports
The local football team is West Drayton Explorers, whose home ground is on Chestnut Avenue, Stockley Park.
The district has many canal paths and trails suitable for cycling. The West Drayton Mountain Bike Club runs mountain bike and road events in the area.
West Drayton's wide open green spaces provide plenty of opportunity for children to play.
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“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Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;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)
“In the end, I think you really only get as far as you’re allowed to get.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 87 (June 17, 1991)