Sports
- Bobby Abel (1857–1936), British cricketer
- Bobby Abel (NASCAR driver) (1930–1995), racecar driver
- George Abel (1916–1996), Canadian ice hockey player
- Graham Abel (born 1960), English footballer
- Hans-Joachim Abel (born 1952), German football (soccer) player
- Jennifer Abel (born 1991), Canadian Olympic diver
- Mathias Abel (born 1981), German football (soccer) player
- Neil Abel (born 1960), British ice hockey player
- Sid Abel (1918–2000), Canadian hockey player and coach
- Sten Abel (1872–1942), Norwegian Olympic sailor
- Taffy Abel (1900–1964), American ice hockey player
- Thomas Abel (footballer) (born 1974), Danish football player
- Tom Abel (cricketer) (1890–1937), first class cricketer who played for Surrey and Glamorgan
- William Abel (1887–1934), English cricketer
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“There be some sports are painful, and their labor
Delight in them sets off. Some kinds of baseness
Are nobly undergone, and most poor matters
Point to rich ends.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“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)
“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)