Sport
- George Best, football player
- Danny Blanchflower, football player
- Sammy Clingan, Pro Footballer
- Ray Close, boxer
- David Cullen, basketball player and 2007 winner of the Arthur Ashe for Courage Award at the ESPY awards for work with Peace Players International
- Dave Finlay, professional wrestler
- Alex Higgins, former world snooker champion
- David Healy, football player
- Damaen Kelly, former professional boxer and Olympic bronze medalist
- Wayne McCullough, former world champion boxer and Olympic medalist
- Alexander McDonnell, early 19th century chess master
- Sammy McIlroy, football player
- Jim Magilton, football player and manager
- Rinty Monaghan, former undisputed world flyweight boxing champion.
- Owen Nolan, Ice hockey player
- Andrew Patterson, cricketer
- Mark Patterson, cricketer
- Mary Peters, athlete and Olympic Gold Medalist
- John Watson, Formula One driver
- Norman Whiteside, football player
- Johnny Flynn, football player
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Famous quotes containing the word sport:
“Rabelais, for instance, is intolerable; one chapter is better than a volume,—it may be sport to him, but it is death to us. A mere humorist, indeed, is a most unhappy man; and his readers are most unhappy also.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
““Justice” was done, and the President of the Immortals, in Æschylean phrase, had ended his sport with Tess. And the d’Urberville knights and dames slept on in their tombs unknowing. The two speechless gazers bent themselves down to the earth, as if in prayer, and remained thus a long time, absolutely motionless: the flag continued to wave silently. As soon as they had strength they arose, joined hands again, and went on.
The End”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
“Drag racing is a sport of egos, and it’s all male egos.”
—Shirley “Cha Cha” Muldowney (b. 1940)