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:
“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)
“Come, my Celia, let us prove
While we may the sports of love;
Time will not be ours forever,
He at length our good will sever.”
—Ben Jonson (1572–1637)
“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)