Sports
- Irving Baxter, winner of two gold medals and three silver medals at the 1900 Paris Olympics
- Anita DeFrantz, 1976 women's eight-oared shell bronze medalist, the first woman and the first African-American to represent the United States on the International Olympic Committee, IOC's first female vice president, and chair of the Commission on Women and Sports.
- Marvin Goldklang, Minority owner of the New York Yankees
- John Heisman, American football player and coach of football, basketball, and baseball, for whom the Heisman Trophy is named.
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“Reading about ethics is about as likely to improve one’s behavior as reading about sports is to make one into an athlete.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn,
Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;
Amidst thy bowers the tyrant’s hand is seen,
And desolation saddens all thy green;
One only master grasps the whole domain,
And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain;”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)
“It was so hard to pry this door open, and if I mess up I know the people behind me are going to have it that much harder. Because then there’s living proof. They can sit around and say, “See? It doesn’t work.” I don’t want to be their living proof.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 87 (June 17, 1991)