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:
“...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)
“Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behaviour, attire, grace, learning and all their words aimeth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)