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:
“Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain,
Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain,
Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid,
And parting summer’s lingering blooms delayed,
Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease,
Seats of my youth, when every sport could please,
How often have I loitered o’er the green,
Where humble happiness endeared each scene.”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)
“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.
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—George Orwell (1903–1950)
“How long, then, Catiline, while you abuse our patience? How long is this madness of yours to make sport of us?”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)