Sports
- Billy Wells (American football) (William Prescott Wells, 1931–2001), American professional football player
- Bombardier Billy Wells (William Thomas Wells, 1889–1967), English heavyweight boxer
- William Wells (boxer) (born 1936), British boxer, represented Great Britain at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Willie Wells (1905–1989), American professional baseball player
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“It is usual for a Man who loves Country Sports to preserve the Game in his own Grounds, and divert himself upon those that belong to his Neighbour.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)
“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)
“...I didn’t come to this with any particular cachet. I was just a person who grew up in the United States. And when I looked around at the people who were sportscasters, I thought they were just people who grew up in the United States, too. So I thought, Why can’t a woman do it? I just assumed everyone else would think it was a swell idea.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 85 (June 17, 1991)