Sports and Games
- Excelsior (chess problem), a chess problem by Sam Loyd
- Excelsior Mouscron, a Belgian association football club
- SBV Excelsior, a Dutch association football club
- Excelsior AC Roubaix, a French association football club
- SV Excelsior, a Surinamese association football club
- Birmingham Excelsior F.C., a defunct English association football club
- SS Excelsior (football club), a club from Réunion Island established in 1940
- AS Excelsior, an association football club from Saint-Joseph, Réunion Island
- F.C. Excelsior, Mexican football club that plays in the Segunda División Profesional
- Excelsior Maassluis, a football club from Maassluis, the Netherlands
- Excelsior Handicap, an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually
- Excelsior Rugby Club, an amateur rugby team that plays in the ILT Southland Wide Premier Division
- Excelsior Stadium, the home of Airdrie United F.C. of the Scottish Football League Second Division
- Excelsior of Brooklyn, an amateur baseball team that played in Brooklyn, New York
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Famous quotes containing the words sports and, sports and/or games:
“Sports and gallantries, the stage, the arts, the antics of dancers,
The exuberant voices of music,
Have charm for children but lack nobility; it is bitter earnestness
That makes beauty; the mind
Knows, grown adult.”
—Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962)
“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)
“The rules of drinking games are taken more serious than the rules of war.”
—Chinese proverb.