Sports
- Bobby Atherton, Welsh international footballer
- Jim Bagby, Jr., major-league baseball pitcher
- Fred Blackburn (footballer), English footballer and coach
- Drew Bundini Brown, Muhammad Ali's assistant trainer and cornerman
- Dan Devine, American football coach
- Joe Gold, bodybuilding and fitness guru of Gold's Gym
- Cornelius Johnson, American Olympic medal-winning high jumper
- Charlie Keller, left fielder in Major League Baseball
- Frank Sinkwich, American footballer, won 1942 Heisman Trophy, 1944 NFL MVP
- Edwin Stratton, a British aikido teacher and the founder of Yoshinkan UK
- Agostino Straulino (1914–2004) Olympic champion and Italian admiral
- Jim Thorpe, American Olympic athlete
- Henk de Velde, Dutch seafarer known for his long solo-voyages around the world
- Matthew Webb, first person to swim the English Channel without the use of artificial aid
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“Short of a wholesale reform of college athletics—a complete breakdown of the whole system that is now focused on money and power—the women’s programs are just as doomed as the men’s are to move further and further away from the academic mission of their colleges.... We have to decide if that’s the kind of success for women’s sports that we want.”
—Christine H. B. Grant, U.S. university athletic director. As quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A42 (May 12, 1993)
“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)
“In the end, I think you really only get as far as you’re allowed to get.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 87 (June 17, 1991)