Sports
| Name | Life | Comments | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arthur Ashe | (1943–1993) | American tennis player and social activist; won three Grand Slam titles. | |
| Mike Beuttler | (1940–1988) | British Formula One driver. | |
| Glenn Burke | (1952–1995) | American Major League Baseball player for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Oakland Athletics. | |
| John Curry | (1949–1994) | British figure skater who won the Olympic and World Championships in 1976. | |
| Esteban De Jesús | (1951–1989) | Puerto Rican boxer; world lightweight champion. | |
| Rudy Galindo | (born 1969) | American figure skater; won a bronze medal at the 1996 World Championships. | |
| Bill Goldsworthy | (1944–1996) | Canadian ice hockey player; played in the National Hockey League for fourteen seasons. | |
| Magic Johnson | (born 1959) | American basketball player; was named to the NBA All-Star team twelve times. | |
| Job Komol | (born 1981) | Cameroonian soccerplayer at Vitesse | |
| Greg Louganis | (born 1960) | American Olympic diver; best known for winning back-to-back Olympic titles in both the 3 m and 10 m events. | |
| Robert McCall | (1958–1991) | Canadian figure skater; won a bronze medal at the 1988 Winter Olympics. | |
| Ondrej Nepela | (1951–1989) | Slovak figure skater, was Olympic champion in 1972. | |
| Tim Richmond | (1955–1989) | American NASCAR racing driver. | |
| Roy Simmons | (born 1956) | American athlete who played for the National Football League. | |
| Jerry Smith | (1943–1987) | American professional football player; tight end for the Washington Redskins. | |
| Tom Waddell | (1937–1987) | American Olympic athlete; founded the Gay Games | |
| Robert Wagenhoffer | (1960–1999) | American figure skater; won a silver medal at the 1982 U.S. Figure Skating Championships. | |
| Ji Wallace | (born 1977) | Australian gymnast. | |
| Michael Westphal | (1965–1991) | German tennis player. | |
| Alan Wiggins | (1958–1991) | American Major League Baseball player. |
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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)
“In the past, it seemed to make sense for a sportswriter on sabbatical from the playpen to attend the quadrennial hawgkilling when Presidential candidates are chosen, to observe and report upon politicians at play. After all, national conventions are games of a sort, and sports offers few spectacles richer in low comedy.”
—Walter Wellesley (Red)
“I looked so much like a guy you couldn’t tell if I was a boy or a girl. I had no hair, I wore guys’ clothes, I walked like a guy ... [ellipsis in source] I didn’t do anything right except sports. I was a social dropout, but sports was a way I could be acceptable to other kids and to my family.”
—Karen Logan (b. 1949)