In Sports
- Babe Ruth had 171 RBIs with the New York Yankees in 1921
- Johnny Bright rushed for a record 171 yards in the Canadian Football League 44th Grey Cup game on November 24, 1956
- France scored a record 171 goals at the 1998 World Cup
- The Utah Stars, a former American Basketball Association team, went 265-171 (.608) from 1970–1975, the best winning percentage of any team that played in the league
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“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)
“...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)